'The Kerr metric solution to the Einstein field equation'

[SLDF_Gunslinger]

For those of you who have seen the newest Marvin Candle/Pierre Cheng video from ComiCon, you will notice that he was brought to the Island to study Kerr's equations. So, I decided to get busy Googling. Now, I'n no astrphysicist, but it looks like this could go a long way in explaining a lot of the mysteries about the Island.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr_metric

Read the second paragraph and tell me what you think of its implications to The Island!

"Even stranger phenomena can be observed within the innermost region of this spacetime, such as some forms of time travel. For example, the Kerr metric permits closed, time-like loops in which a band of travellers returns to the same place after moving for a finite time by their own clock; however, they return to the same place and time, as seen by an outside observer.



Then there is something that could explain the necessity of the Swan:

The possibility of extracting spin energy from a rotating black hole was first proposed by the mathematician Roger Penrose in 1969 and is thus called the Penrose process. Rotating black holes in astrophysics are a potential source of large amounts of energy and are used to explain energetic phenomena, such as gamma ray bursts.


Gamma ray bursts, like when the sky turned purple when the Swan imploded? Gamma Rays are at the far (purple) end of the EM spectrum.

How about those of you who are more mathmatically inclinded have a look at this Wiki entry and tell me what you think. There are so many other interesting links in this entry that I'm having a hard time digesting it all!

"Time is not of the essence, it IS the essence!"

[dabiatchishere]

Hi Gunslinger, I was just reading about the Kerr Metric System last night on Wikipedia, and also 'antipodes' as it pertains to the 'Frozen Donkey Wheel', and the connection to Tunisia, and the polar Bear remains. I also read a very good theory pertaining to these phenomena, which sounds entirely plausible.

I wholeheartedly concur that the phenomena of the Kerr Metric System does apply to the time differential on 'the island'. I am not an expert, just an enthusiast, so hope I interpret properly.

'The island' has NOT been physically moved, and only appears to be moved to the outside world. For those on the Island, the trip through time is instantaneous. To outside observers, however, the Island disappears until the rest of the world catches up in time, at which point it miraculously reappears. During the interim, the Island effectively ceases to exist in our world and cannot be accessed by anyone.

In addition, those on the outside world, time continues to pass, however upon returning to 'the island', they find, that time on 'the island' remains the same.

I can see how this will play a huge part in the next season, as to the methods employed by 'the losties' to get back to 'the island', and where time stands when they finally arrive there.

Very thought provoking!

[dabiatchishere]

I felt this was a pertinent time to resurrect this! I enjoyed it so much at the time this was posted, and wanted others to give it a read before the premiere on Wednesday.

Once again, well done!

[goober2342]

We have more than one Hint to wormholes and Closed timelike-curves. also the light-cones of the Minkowski-space can form a circle.
Pierre Chang also mentions "exotic matter" in this video.
And there were just two Physicists discussing LOST. I think you can find the link in the spoiler-section.

[leo178]

Thanks for this, This can explain the "Missing 4 years" to the Oceanic 6. But to the Island time will be much shorter (weeks to months)