Thursday, February 28, 2008

The Constant

Season five proved one of the earlier predictions to be correct concerning the relatively different passage of time between the island and the rest of the world. Furthermore, the transition between the island and the outer world can cause travelers to become unstuck in time, a la Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five'.

Daniel was a former professor at Oxford, studying time travel and the relationship to consciousness. Perhaps his interaction with Hume leads to his tears when he eventually hears the news about the discovery of flight 815. Does he know that somehow, his death is going to be related to it?

There are no obvious time paradoxes yet, but I wonder how they resolve Hume going AWOL and appearing to go crazy.

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