On Sat, 10 May 2008 Fish Biscuit wrote:
>This may have been discussed the first time it happened, but now that it
>has happened twice...I'm referring, of course, to the guns that won't
>kill Walt's dad.
>
>The only scientific explanation I can think of for the phenomena (
>besides mind-bogglingly improbable coincidence ) lays in my, admittedly
>limited, understanding of quantum theory...in that, given an infinite
>multi-dimensional universe and sufficient time, anything that can happen
>WILL happen - quantum theory seems to state that a person CAN walk
>unharmed through a solid stone wall, just that it is exceedingly
>unlikely that anyone will ever do so during the entire history of the
>human race.
It could be a variation on this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_immortality
....in which we as viewers are constantly being ****fted into different
worlds, and in each case that world is a world in which the gun didn't
fire and Michael (or Sawyer in the shoot-out, or Claire with the RPG)
survived.
Alternatively, if we're dealing with single reality, but one in which
certain characters can know the future either through time travel or
parapsychological means, then someone who knew of Michael's certain
survival up to particular future date could feed him all these stories
about "the island" wanting him alive and not have to worry about the
details. Michael's survival WOULD be the result of a bizarre series of
coincidences, but a series of which the long-term outcome was already
known. An absolute certainty with an extraordinarily unlikely
probability is not impossible under these cir***stances.
It would be like going back in time a week and telling the known lottery
winner he was about to win. What you end up with is staggeringly low
odds, but with an absolute guarantee of fruition. It seems like a
contradiction but it's not; it works because there's more than one
observer.
Of course this being LOST the real truth could well be somewhere in
between (or indeed somewhere miles away). The only certainty is that
there'll be a lot of Lindelhof / Cuse interpretation thrown in along the
way.
What I hope it ISN'T is a literal island "consciousness" that can reach
out across space and/or time and manipulate previously unforeseen events
as and when they threaten its plans. That's too far beyond paranormal
and into the realms of pure fantasy for me.
--
Kev
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