Ben COULD move the island

There is an interesting article up at Popular Mechanics explaining exactly how this could happen.

To make physics sense of the movement of the island in Lost, I assume that the island is actually connected to the South Pacific by a wormhole-like warp in space-time. (It doesn't have to be a simple worm hole; it could be a warren of parallel and intersecting tubes.) Then, to move the island, all you have to do is move the wormhole connection, not the island itself. That's what I think Ben did. He changed the nature of the space-time connection between the island and the rest of the world. So the island didn't disappear. It didn't even move.

Imagine that you are visiting a small town that you used to visit when you were young. You drive for miles, and never come to it. But it turns out the town has not moved. Rather, the highway now goes around it. That's what Ben did—he changed the highway.

Hmmm.. let's pause while we figure this out.




Here is a link to all of Popular Mechanics articles pertaining to Lost this past season. Makes for some interesting summer reading!