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> http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/science_news/4263315.html
>
> When we interviewed the creators of Lost, they hinted at big things to
> come—and in last night’s Locke-centric episode, “Cabin Fever,” we
> finally found out this season’s end game: If Locke wants to save the
> island, he’s going to have to move it.
>
> So just how can Locke move the island–-and where will he move it, for
> that matter? Michio Kaku, author of “Physics of the Impossible,” told
> us he thinks that Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are using the
> island’s unique properties—namely its electromagnet and the Casimir
> Effect hinted at in the Orchid Station orientation video—to open a
> transversible wormhole to different points in time and space. (Über-
> baddie Keamy seemed to verify that when he pulled the Orchid-Station-
> emblazed “secondary protocol” from the ****p’s safe. He said the
> do***ent would tell him “where Linus is going. If Linus knows we’re
> going to torch the island, there’s only one place he could go.”)
>
> The Casimir Effect and transversible wormholes are real, cutting-edge
> science, Kaku says. “The Casimir Effect has to do with the energy of
> the vacuum,” he says. “It’s negative energy that has bizarre
> properties.” Black holes, he says, could open up a ****tal to another
> universe, but it would be a one-way trip because they’re unstable and
> can’t stay open on their own. Casimir energy could, in theory, keep
> the gateway from closing and create a transversible wormhole.
> According to Kaku, if an energy source like Lost’s big electromagnet
> were present, a black hole could open up and the island’s Casimir
> Effect could keep it open, creating a ****tal.
>
> We’ve already seen some time and space jumping on the show. First,
> Ben’s arrival in the Tunisian desert in Dr. Halliwax’s Orchid Station
> parka hinted at the island’s ability to shuttle people around to
> different locations. And just as strange, it seems that the time
> difference between the freighter and the island is changing: In the
> previous episode, it was nighttime when Faraday used the sat-phone-
> turned-telegraph to ask what happened to the doctor, but it was
> daylight when the freighter folk received the message; Keamy didn’t
> slit his throat until later. (Note: We’re assuming “Cabin Fever”
> chronologically follows “The Shape of Things to Come.”)
>
> But how realistic is moving an entire island through time and space?
> According to Kaku, there are two ways it could be possible: Quantum
> tele****tation, which would zap the island from one place to another;
> or through a wormhole, which could theoretically move the island to
> different points in either space or time. Quantum tele****tation of
> photons and atoms already exists, says Kaku—the record is 600 meters
> over the Danube River—but “to move an island would require technology
> centuries more advanced than what we have now.” (Kaku also thinks this
> is unlikely since the show hasn’t yet mentioned quantum entanglement,
> which is necessary for this kind of tele****tation to occur.)
>
> While the wormhole theory might seem more likely given what we know
> about the Orchid Station, the amount of energy needed to move an
> island through a wormhole, Kaku says, is immense—you’d need the
> positive energy of a star and negative energy with a mass the size of
> Jupiter just to create a wormhole big enough for a person—and you’d
> need very advanced technology millions of years beyond our own to do
> it. “In principal, they are within the laws of physics,” Kaku says,
> “but it would be very advanced laws of physics, and it’s something we
> can’t exploit at the present time.” Plus, there could be consequences.
> “If you’re not careful, you could swallow up the earth in the
> process.”—Erin Scottberg
Michio Kookoo is an attention whore and a crackpot.
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