| [Note: A version without pictures was posted at 6:08pm CST, on 5/27/11. This version was posted at 6:24pm CST, on 5/27/11. Please see the 4/20/11, 4/26/11, 5/3/11, 5/12/11, and 5/19/11 postings for prior installments in these continuing Lost tales.] LOST CODA VI:
MAYAN KING, FARADAY QUANTUM MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO,
ENTANGLING THE TUNNELS OF MIRRORVERSED LOVE.... .......Stolichnaya-enhanced, Sergei pensives a postscript.... "Ah, here he comes.... the one of vich I spoke... our key to unlocking the hold of Brotherhood in past, present, and future...." 
Red army-issued utensils now clang, clattering sharply 'gainst shared drang.... Ben staccato-stutters the silence, with a gape-jawed amazement.... "YOU..! It's YOU! What're you doing here...? We all thought you were...." Quizzled brow furrowing forward, Faraday fords the rock-filled foyer.... "Ah... I'm not the best with faces, but..... I'm sorry........ Do I...... know you?" Ben babbling um-ahs... Hugo hurling homefried homilies... "Faraday... good 'ol Danny boy Faraday! Best doc on the rock... Rockin' scientist extraordinaire!  Waddya mean ya don't know us? We all thought you were dead, tot, nada, kaput, auf weidersehen, adieu, through and through and through.... All those boxes of DHARMApuffs you and Charlotte went through on the island, and you still don't know us? Man, you were one hipcat fashion-happenin' dude, in that little yellow radahazmat suit.... Mothersbaugh called and wants the energy dome back, too... But hey, we've all got this uncontrollable urge to learn the truth, so why don'tja slide right up on this comfy coldstone bench... We've got some extra red-hot-hemoglobinnedmaizecakes for sale, with an iron-back clad guarantee!"  Taken aback again and then some, Faraday furtively smirks a slink sideways, moving on up to the east side, sidling next to his comrade-in-arms... "Ah.... Sergei.... Care to fill me in on the guestlist today? Bolshoi-balleting a tip-toed reply, Sergei dances round the topic, circling for plausible exits of denial.. "Da.. da.. da.... Ve are in company of wisitors from other spacetime, perhaps from future ahead of our own.... They may be telling truth, know you in later lifetime, vhere you have died..." Adrenal gland slumping its pumping, bug-eyed Benjamin linuses Faraday with a blanket of questions.... "Yes, we thought you were dead, cold toast, crispy shrimp on the kenandbarbie... Whose side are you on? Who do you work for NOW? What year did you come here from? And where did you get that hideous garb.... the burlap coat factory?" Pelted and pummeled, reeling in all the years, finally steeling his dan, Faraday trademarks a soft-cautioned reply.... "All nondisclosures and confidentialities aside, since we are now obviously soulbrojourners on the same spacetime  plane, what I can reasonably surmise is that you must have indeed known me in some future lifetime.... So we must be careful what we say, so we don't badripple the pond..." "What I can tell you is this... Sergei and I are already swimming in the pool, back here doing what we had already done, in a Valen's-name way... After we unearthed Sergei's age-cake-crusted dogtags from this Mayasite dig, roughly three millennia in the future from now, plans were lock-set in motion by the powers that be.... Sergei's even wearing the very same pair of ancient dogtags that we excavated, wrapping a nice and neat bow on this present, allowing us to backstroke to this era with minimal pond-rippling... Who knows when he is fated to lose those tags to time..."  "While at Oxford I worked for Widmore-- you do know who Charles Widmore is, don't you?-- and I'm right here right now under the generous auspices of a new kind benefactor, the industrialist currently known as Hanso. More specifically, I'm here under an umbrella of Hanso-sponsored projects administered by Gerald and Karen deGroot, collectively housed under the Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications, or DHARMA, for short. Very intriguing, wide-ranging, envelope-pushing stuff, from gene therapy to electromagnetism, from meteorology to parapsychology, and far beyond."  "My own little piece of this research kingdom is called DAMA, focused on the search for DArk MAtter and mapping observed relationships among dark and light matter.... A cornerstone in this enterprise is the cutting-edge research by Robert Foot on a dark matter interpretation of mirror matter theory.1 The primary publicly-stated objective in my DAMA initiative within the broader DHARMA umbrella is to generate a unified dark matter-based mirror matter theory helping to explain a number of mysterious phenomena, ranging from teleportation to traversable wormhole transit, from accelerated healing to decelerated aging, from non-localized 'parapsychic' sentience to beam- and forcefield-based applications."  "But now I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, as it all started out with those rat-mazing experiments while I was at Oxford.... pink-colored, charlie-algernoned flowers, and the whole shebang... I succeeded in pink-portaling ratminded sentience through spacetime, but all at a very high cost of living, to be sure, with diminishingly unhappy returns.... Overloaded their neural circuits, getting logarithmically worse with each new trial... sweet dreams are unmade of these.... Tried it out on humans, too, before we knew what we were getting into... Then the nosebleeds and the neural fugueing, cherrytopped with mouth-foaming whitecapped waves of apopleptic seizuring.... Definitely not a pretty impinked sight!"  ... Ben chimes in, ringing further truth to the proceedings.... "Yes, we saw much the same thing on the island, runny-red-nosed record-skipping through spacetime, with unrelieveable headaches and cognitive cobwebbing.... Sorry to say I shouldered much of the blame... I'm not at all proud of my spindly-armed, wobbly-legged, ill-fated effort to Frozen Donkey Wheel the island to a kinder, gentler place in the sun...."  Stroking stubblefielded swaths, Faraday muses maunderingly.... mmmmmm.... "Hmmm... didja happen to notice the color of the flashing-field-aura when you skip-rippled back and forth across the spacetimepond?" Mulling a moment, Ben blurts curtly... "Oh, no, I wasn't there with that brain-spanked past-probing gang, nor did they happen to mention it to us. All I remember was was a bright white-yellow lightflash, then, blam... there I was, smack-dab parka-clad sprawled on a parched Tunisian plateau...." Midflight in perchlessed reverie, Hurley birdwingsongs swiftly... "Hey, but we did pull a Hendrix at that dockside Othery incident, with Walt and Michael SS Minnowing a three-hour-tour away from the island... Man, it was eerie, with Prince meeting Jimi, purple-rainhazy ditty... Dude, the WHOLE ISLAND was soaked in that Jimiprinced aura... Seemed like it was purple, but a little dab o' valisined darkpink'll do ya, too, courtesy of Juan Horselover Fat...."  Smirkacademicked-sidegrin revealing, Faraday recuperates archibald, wheeling.... "Well, if you weathered that storm sansanosebleed, it confirms my prevailing headwinded, hairbraining, no-fugue-son theory... After I got in from the cold-clammy-rained English ratrace, with new fund infusion I Tour de la Franticked, true-gridding the planet, lacing vile and nonvile nodals, dustbowl-empiricizing patterns.... And I'm pleased to report that we found an irrefutable direct link between vortextual vility and gridnode matter-energy varieties...."  In no way concealing a deep-yawning feeling, Hurley punctures the proceedings with plaintive-pined pleadings... "Dude, you're not peddling us some Oceanic brand o' Viagra now, are ya.... little purplehazerained, PKDickpinked pills, takes a licking and keeps on ribticklingly good up to 25,000 feet?" Ben's disdainrolling pupils teach a rotememed reply... "Hugo! Please let this good man continue... Faraday may be our only hope for getting back to the future, so flux your capacitor, and shut the cluck up, chickybaby...."  Gumming a gluey hemoglobclotted maizecake, Faraday palateclears throatly, oncemore uncorking the pensive professional.... "Ahem... Yes, through our planet-wide grid study, we found the vile vortextual negative nodes invariably contained vast tracts of blackrockin' substrate, coursing with weird-pulsing cloud-browned liquid... Quite by accident, we discovered the life-sucking properties of this baleful, aleful brew when a technician inadvertently spilled some on her dog, which convulsively morphed to a cold-clammy, zombified, resolute-toothy bodyholepuncher in just over twenty-three hours..."  "Scrambling back to our senses, scouring padlocked specimen cases, egged on by the dim sum of our recollections.... We followed the yellow-brick glow, chickenracing through positive gridnode stockpiles, unearthing Kiev-sourced white-rocked deposits, laced with glow-flux-filled capillaries...you know this as Light of Life Vril, ja.... Transfusing her undead fanged fido, plucked from the clutches of putrescing SaviniRomeroation, we thus bid a fond foul farewell to this terror-filled nightmare cum living undead-pounded puppy.... "  Ji Yeon's feather-filled headpiece quivers arrows, shooting spinesided shivers, as she comforts in the codpiece of Charlie's cordwood-sinewed-bronze arms... Little life-pounded-out puppies, walking undeaded dogs, mouthing tooth-ache-drippy maws... No, this was more than she dared dream... But one thing was certain... Ji would Ripley the Kirkman, when they lifted the curtain, trained martially from birth, then.... Charming a Des-flashing grin, Charlie exhumes Ji from deathdreamer's grip, flashing back up the ladder, Faraday's sonorous tones toothcutting through chatter...."Careful study of blackrock and whiterock specimens back at the lab lay the groundwork for a grand mid-ranged theory of exotic light/dark forces at work within and between 'verses... What we found was a true Robert Foot-statued  stunner, rockrippling implications through pond-smooth-screened netbooks and hallow-halled hardbound textbooks... In simplified terms that any good schoolchild would know, the blackrock was infused with small amounts of dark matter, safely contained within a matrix of lightsided 'ordinary' matter; imagine our suprise in learning that blackrock is largely comprised of ordinary matter, tinged black from the presence of trace darkside matter. And contrary to what ye good schoolchildren should know, dark mirror matter is not the same as that archetypical and decidedly explosive antimatter, in which everything is oriented in the opposite manner to ordinary matter." 2  "But the real kicker for us was the discovery that the veritable 'dark sucking sound' is not some vile-vortical, monster-in-the-closet darktrace; true revelations lay, instead, beneath the shadow of Casmirrored verse-void-bridged relations.... Trace dark matter held captive in blackrocked prisons is a veritable iceberg-tipped foretaste of that shadowy bulk looming right below the surface of our lightside-versed, ordinary-mattered reality.... And once the integrity of this blackrocked prison is breached, all 'bottleversed' hell quite literally and figuratively breaks loose, as darkmirror-mattered energy flows into this universe, bridging the vacuum-voided Casimirror in one helluvan energetic way..."  "We found the same pattern held true for the whiterocked matter unearthed at Kiev and at other positive nodes on the planetary grid, in a mirror-mattered manner, of course... What we see when we look at the whiterock is what lies beneath the surface of a polarly-opposed, mirror-imaged reaction... From their vantage point, whiterock deposits are what a mirror-mattered being would see as the shadowy bulk of lightsided matter looming just beneath the surface of their darkside-versed reality. Mirroring the blackrock patterns, once the integrity of a whiterock prison is breached, all LOLglowy heaven will quite literally and figuratively break loose as lightside-mattered energy flows out of our universe into mirrormatterland, Alicing the Casimirrored vacuum-sealed void in the process.... And so it was, that in holding these reverse-imaged relations up to the mirror, we were finally able to flashforward these insights to a revolutionary Quantum Foamy Tunneling Entanglement Mirror Matter theory...." "But first, before we get to that, a bit of a preface is in order. On a macroscopic scale, we already know that when dark matter is encased within an ordinary matter matrix, that figurative darkside sucking sound is when energy lost through mirror  matter radiation is replaced by energy from the surrounding ordinary matter, cooling the latter in the process. 3 We strongly suspect this plays a central role in the zombification process we observed in the technician's dog-- and what you saw in Sayid's transformation-- as dark matter/energy infusions drain lightside baryon-based life energy from organic hosts. Reversing this macroscopic phenomenon is made possible through infusions of the extract gleaned from glowing capillaries in the whiterock matrix, found at positive nodes on the planetary grid, an extract known to you as the LOLVril, flowing from the Light of Life cave on the island you described to me earlier."  Fidgeting slop-sweated-nervously on the cold stone bench, Ben avers Hurley's indicting stare, hoping for a final reprieve..... Hurley ignores this appeal, pressing his case back to Faraday, instead... "Hmmm.... Dude, expiring minds like mine might faretheewell wonder if what yer saying has anything to do with those moms-to-be dying on the island, before their kids were born.... Yeah, whattabout that, ay? What if someone got pregnant and carried a child in the same place as a buncha big black rocks? I sure hope they weren't totin' around some green-skinned robzombiemonstas in the tummy, like that rebooted Tony Orlando and Dawn's Not Quite Yet Dead movie.... Tie a yella ribbon 'round that old croaked geezer.... Man, I couldn't go a'mallin' without a night visitor for a whole week after that one!" Flinching a fincher, Faraday fades fast back into the limelight of a post-doc exegeticumlaude.... "Well.... It certainly is possible that the presence of a mother lode of blackrock may have a titular, eponymal effect on both the mother of a newly conceived child and the unsprung offspring.... For example, if ingesting  LOLVril-infused mangos and other islandic foodstuffs-- and drinking LOLVril-charged liquids-- enhances the healing process and slows aging, then it is reasonable to hold that eating and drinking ALEVril-tainted items may well have the opposite effect on beings comprised largely of 'ordinary' matter: accelerated aging and an increased incidence of illness, malaise, even cancer, arising from the sucking away of crucial lightside lifeforce energy by the presence of darkmattered concentrations in the system. Thus it is entirely possible that Ben's cancer may have resulted from ingesting ALEVril-tainted food and drink, and from what you've described to me, the exact nature of the island's role in all of this is open to some intriguing speculations." 4  "Getting back to the fate of the islandmoms, through absorbing dark matter from what the mother has been ingesting, and/or from prolonged exposure to high concentrations of dark-mattered materials, associated with higher levels of dark energy fields, it is possible that the gestating embryos and fetuses were quite literally growing at the expense of the lightside energy and lifeforce of their mothers, sucking increasing amounts of ordinary, baryon-based energy from them as a consequence of the mirror matter radiation their young bodies were emitting... Bridging in weird ways to the zombification process, we may well find that beings conceived in comparatively strong dark matter/energy fields attract trace dark matter/energy out of the surrounding environment as a natural part of their growth and development as hybridized light/dark beings.... Each one their own spin-twin, as it were...." "On macroscopic scales, we know from Robert Foot's research that mirror and ordinary matter interact via gravity and that the universe is not WIMPy, but rather is  MACHO, man, involving mirror stars, planets, and other non-baryonic, dark matter-based Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects. 5 Moving down from the machoman village of macroscopic scales it gets even weirder, however, and here is where the Faraday/Hostager 'Quantum Foamy Tunneling Entanglement Mirror Matter Theory' emerges, and all along, it was the black rock that held the key.... Actually, giving full credit where credit is due, you need to consider all four elements: blackrock, whiterock, LOLVril, and ALEVril, along with John Archibald Wheeler's concept of Quantum Foam and the notions of Quantum Tunneling and Entanglement, more broadly." "Building on Foot's theory, kicking it down to the quantum level, we found  evidence that the blackrock material is, itself, a naturally-occurring medium for mirror matter transit to and from our 'ordinary' universe, and vice-versa. Key to this revolutionary insight is a documented phenomenon known as Quantum Tunneling. Unlike classical mechanics, at quantum levels-- based on wave-particle duality and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle-- it is entirely possible (but statistically improbable) that particles can actually 'tunnel' through barriers they would not be able to surmount in the classical physical realm. Quantum tunneling is a very real phenomenon, albeit inherently probabilistic and quantum-scaled, but an important phenomenon, nonetheless, helping us understand the nature of radioactive decay, how scanning tunneling microscopes work, and more." 6  "In short, the blackrock is a highly-concentrated nexus of dark matter quantum tunneling activity, triggered and enabled by what we found to be an unusually level of quantum foamyness in the spacetime coordinates occupied by the blackrock. Measurements confirmed the existence of a mirror-opposite pattern at the quantum level for whiterock material. It is the probabilistic quantum tunneling of dark and light matter across the light and dark 'verses that creates the opportunity for generating and manipulating strange spacetime, matter/energy relations, and a central driver in this whole enterprise is the creation and annihilation of virtual particles and their mirror counterparts in Wheeler's Quantum Foam, generating enough energy to curve spacetime, setting the whole stage for the range of miraculous effects we've been studying..." 7 Lick-lipping, moment-seizing, froth-seething, caffeine-dreaming... Hurley opines for an orange mocha frappucino... "Hey, what's up with the starbucks science guy,  I mean, no need to go all Zoolander on us, stuck back here in nosferatutu bloodredmaizecakingland... Quantum foam, hold the latte? What's next, a blood-red foamy wasting away in hemaglobinville? Charlie angles and doubles, over Hurley's trite troubles.... "Here, try these out, hungry manwichhandler...." Smooth-grey-globbed jellified blobs, cradled in crack-riddled bowls, wet with fish-viscous slime.... "Dude, now THIS is what I'm talkin' bout... FINALLY some unblooded food! I mean, I know ya need yer daily dosa iron and other supplements, but enough already with the rougefood! Yum... tastes... sorta like.... chicken!"  Ji casts a furtive, glancing his brow, chuckling Charlie dives right back in, delivering disavow... "You do realize what you're eating, right? Not their maniocal tapioca, but... that famed and fabled South American delicacy.... monkey brain salad surgery! Smooth-noodle-map that one in your peacepipe, Hurley!" Drainwashing color, Hurley gags out glistening globules... "ELP...er...Yeahright that's so funny... Sorry, Charlie, but I donna wanna get that dreaded bovineflatulencespongebobiformencephalocatsincradle disease, yaknow, the one with swisscheesing holes in the brain and...oh, I forgot what else.... See watcha did to me now!" Ben folds five maizecakes, griddling full-baked reply... "Why oh why oh why do I feel like the nanny.... let's just heed the professor..." Headnodding assent, Faraday continues.... "The final piece of the mirror matter puzzle is Quantum Entanglement, which in this case simply means that: (1) the universe conserves dark and light matter even in situations of dark/light crossverse tunneling, and (2) dark/light crossverse 'shadowed' mirror relations among spin- twins need not be localized, but instead may be non-local. On the first point, Quantum Entanglement helps ensure conservation of dark and light matter through entangled but perfectly anti-correlated spin observations, light and dark, clockwise and counter-clockwise. The second point is absolutely crucial to achieving viable wormhole travel, including short-scale 'mini-wormhole' transit from one place to another on the Earth, as well as establishing long-scale traversable wormholes between Earth, the Crab Nebula, and other points throughout the known universe. Entangled non-locality, coupled with tunneling and foam-based phenomena at the quantum level, also enable such weird effects as non-local sentience breaching classical spacetime boundaries (Rose and other psychics), as well as time travel...." "And the key to leveraging these quantum-foamy, tunneling-entangling, light/dark sided relations lies in getting the just the right recipe in place to configure and  channel lightside/darkside matter/energy reactions, all the way from microscopic to macroscopic levels.... Through no small series of trials and errors, we worked out the basic combinations for yielding a spectrum of mirror-powered effects, ranging from focused beams to protective shields, from psychic phenomena to large-scale traversable wormholes, from small-scale teleportation to time travel, from accelerated death and disease, to improved healing and longevity.... All through proper proportions and careful configurations of relations among the fourfold keys: blackrock, whiterock, dark-energized ALEVril, and lightsided cave-sourced LOLVril."  Hurley blurts a raspberry retort...... "But hey, doc, not ta busta move on yer quantum bubbleverse, but isn't this dark matta 'sposed ta be invisible to our nude eyes? I mean, I don't remember that much from my high school days, but I did have this test-tube-shaped Mr. Nye ja Science Guy for class, and since he was so Ahnaldnot, it's burned into my wiring that this dark matter foam latte whatever is supposed to be Ahnald-antimatter, an inverted unSchvarzenneckeredminusixpack of massive wimpitude..." ....first crack of light in the humor mill, Faraday parts a gobliny grin.... "Glad you asked, kind Hugo.... Yes, WIMPs are hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles proposed as one of several potential solutions to the dark matter issue. And that's where Foot's theories are revolutionizing the field through proposing non-wimpy, stronger forms of light-dark matter interactions, all with testable predictions, better matching the known data to date." "Building on Foot's foundation, we developed the Quantum Foamy Tunneling Entanglement Mirror Matter theory and discovered that just like quantum tunneling in the ordinary 'verse, with lightside particles drilling through other lightside matter, quantum tunneling occurs not just WITHIN the lightside 'verse, but also BETWEEN  light and darkside 'verses, providing another exciting window into inherently unWIMPy dark-light matter/energy relations. Here is where the extra-foamy blackrock matter warps spacetime in ways that enable dark matter quantum tunneling into our lightside universe at levels violating quantum probabilities. As a result, the blackrock and ALEVril may rightly be construed as one-way streets along which it is possible for 'bottleversed' dark matter to tunnel here and more strongly interact with ordinary matter, in an admittedly improbabilistic manner on the quantum level. As a result, far greater than normal concentrations of dark matter are coexisting within a concentrated, localized spacetimefield, hence, the object or area in question appears dark, due to a pronounced predomination of shadowness cast by dark matter dominated light-dark relations in our ordinary 'verse."  "Of course, viewed from the reverse angle of the mirror matter verse, quantum tunneling of dark matter into the ordinary verse ramps up the concentration of lightside white matter in mirrormatterville, but not because it is a two-way street, but rather because of the conservation of total dark and light matter across the two verses, with dark matter that is tunneling into our 'verse leading to an immediate and direct increase in the amount of ordinary matter in the mirror 'verse, as quantum entanglement works its weird magic to reverse-spin dark matter into light matter in the mirror verse."  "So we have two one-way streets operating between the 'verses, with the blackrock serving as an avenue for dark matter to tunnel to our 'verse, and the whiterock providing an avenue for light matter to tunnel into the mirror matter 'verse. And it is this interrelated set of phenomena that sets up an apparent mechanism for realizing a 'Crisis On Infinite Earths' scenario in which some darksided, antimonitored overlord seeks to expand their kingdom through converting our ordinary lightsided 'verse into their own dark-mirror-mattered image. Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for us, the crossverse conservation of darkspun and lightspun matter through quantum entanglement insures that this will never occur, as a darkside invasion spilling ALEful brew to our 'verse will merely and directly lead to a corresponding downfall of their mirrorworld kingdom, as anticorrelated entanglement spins their darkverse into lightness, with ever-increasing luminosity...."  "In addition to oneway-streeted tunneling, we found that crossverse-concentrated matter-- the blackrock, the whiterock, the LOLVril, and the ALEVril-- produce an amplified Casimir Effect, a supermirror as it were, dramatically increasing the zero point power potentials in the vacuum-voided interstitial spaces of a hyperfoamed spacetime... And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where the magic comes from... quantum probability violations in a warped spacetime matterfield, yielding superCasimirrored vacuum-voided energy, producing a weird and wonderful range of macroscopic magical mystery tours, all courtesy of calculated combinations of the blackrock, whiterock, LOLVril, and ALEVril.... much as we observed in the 'Die Glocke' Nazi devices now held at Area 51." 8  ....now force-ful, Hurley's blurting.... "Not that I gotta hankerin' to get all Anakin on ya, but man, what a midichlorian you just dropped on us, doc... I mean...why'ja hafta go and pull a Val Valentino, dude....? Somberwashed silence, broken with a brutal honesty, as Faraday continues the exegetical revelations.... "Well, Hugo... I must admit I have a significant personal stake in this whole enterprise, as the insights we're gleaning from the DAMA Initiative may quite literally save my life at some point... You see... the more we've learned, the greater my concern, that my lightpinked ratmazing Oxford research has over-baryoned my brain, fusing a foundation for future fugueing, preheating my brainpan, setting the stage for a nosebleeding, foam-wielding full-cortical meltdown... Ironically, it's the ALEVril that would heal me from the overcharged-lightsided hyperbaryonization, and we would not have known this without the DAMA research...." "My one greatest fear is what would happen to me now, were I exposed to additional hyperbaryonic, lightside-supercharged phenomena, telltaled by lightpinked and  yellowflashed lights... In the presence of crossversic tunneling, fueling amplified Casimirroring, yielding weird magical teleporting, or time traveling, etc.... I would hate to imagine what that would do to my baryon-baked brain... So onward we tarry, hoping someday to more fully unmagic the beast, demystifying nature's stage secrets, helping people like myself to avoid deep-fried dunkin' burnouts... But the greater reward, what drives us even more, is the potential for magicking away the dire looming cataclysms to come, and thwarting dark Brotherhood agendas, unleashing the full-power of channeled DAMA combinations, in the service of DHARMA Valenzetti Equations..." 9 "And so to these ends, we took our DAMA research to the next level, studying field-theory effects of arrayed vile and nonvile nodes on the grid-- characterized by  distinct natural deposits of rock and Vril types-- and a batterylike metapattern emerged, opening up a new family of higher-order, larger-scaled, dark- and light-powered phenomena, including planet-wide MACHO-scaled shielding, teleportation, time travel, and more.... Initially, it was difficult to refrain from tempting teleologies and anthropomorphic attributions, but we finally realized what had occurred.... You see, it wasn't some ancient alien conspiracy planting positive and negative nodal vortices, blueprinting some Earth-wide battery-powered energy grid... No, we traced the tectonica, plateshifting backward to gridbirth, to mainlanded Pangea, pelted by bigbanged exotica, moving slowly through the eons, now homeostatically aligned, with vile and nonvile vortices in a planet-wide grid..." 10  "So now with the help of Sergei's team and kind benefactor, we are MiGing our way cross the planet, rigging the nodes for just the right moment, two millennia into the future, tapping full planetary gridpower, thwarting Brotherhood's dark apocalyptic agenda.... And our last, best, hope for achieving this goal, is to home-base the assault on the Motherlodal Sourcefont, fair neural-nodal Gaia, gridpowering global patterns through the ages, from weather to magnetic fields, and much, much more.... Yes, your lovehated island, coursing quite indeterminately, is the one true hope for a calm, in the looming roiling storm...our next and final destination, in this grid-rigging run..."  .......while off in the distance, spacetime past in an instant.... reaching to reward his backtraveling assistant, Walt scruffs against-grain, a moist-muzzling Vincent.... "Well, we're definitely not in Kansas, vinnyboy...." Now land of the losting, pangeaically frothing, through choke-smoke-belched-mistings, they peer for a listing... a sign... any sign.... Wherewhen have they ported? Visual disacuity yields to clamoring cacophony.... thundering serpentines glisten,  clawing trails through the fernsward, avian ancestors resplendent, bearing gifts gleaming dontic.... "Gondwanagetouttathisland ASAP.... Come on Vincent, let's head for those hills before they trample us into moo-shu-goo-puddled protein.... Vincent! Let's go, boy!" Raking blackrock-vriled ridges, stumbling onto tumbling into, headfirsting darkpinked bright aura, flashing forward, spacetime remora... Vast inselberg lies beneath, 'islandmountain' in stark relief... commanding presents  from the people, aboriginal churchless steeples.... "C'mon, Vinnyboy... Let's get the lead out and get down offa this rock... I'm starvin' marvin'... Man, whaddathey have to eat around this place? Hey, I must be dreamtimin' my way through some fine didgeridoo... Isn't that one of those mini-roo-thingys....ah Willoughby Wallaby wii? Looks like no elephant will sit down on me..." Skirting chasmic divides, plainfall finally realized, moving bas to full relief.... Yes, quite uluring, this rock is.... Empty stomachs agrowl, pausing sleepful awhile, strange birds screeching afoul, wakeful dreamsleep, and now.... drifting slowly on air, coursing high without fear, flying dreamtimespaced fare.... "Walt.... WALT!.... Time to wake up, you sleepyhead! No time left for you, on your way to better things, you'll find yourself some wings, distant roads are calling you.......... Guess who....?" Smudge-smearing sleepwalkfilled eyes, rousing remnants of consciousness back to plush life, Walt wheedles his fortune, gazing straight at the features of.... "YOU!.... Hey, what're you doing here.... I thought that.... Keep your hands offa Vincent...!" To be continued.... Heh-heh-heh.... Namaste Dr. Todd J. Hostager _______________________________________________________________________ ENDNOTES: 1. For more information on the revolutionary mirror matter theories of the real-world man lying beneath the shadow of the island-statued foot, please see: 2. Dark matter is not the same as antimatter: 3. For more information on this intriguing effect, please see the following excerpt from my 3/2/10 "Sundown" posting:  "...mirror matter fragments can interact with ordinary matter non-gravitationally, via the photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing interaction [PMPKM].... the mirror atoms in the mirror matter fragment undergo frequent collisions with ordinary atoms and, on average, gain energy.... a mirror matter body embedded within ordinary matter equilibrates and efficiently emits mirror radiation.... we cannot detect the mirror radiation directly, however we can infer the existence of an energy loss by looking for its thermal effect on the surrounding ordinary matter. The point is that as the mirror body radiates its heat away into mirror photons, the energy is replaced from the ordinary matter surroundings which will become cooler as a result." [Source: Foot, R., & MItra, S. 2003. "Detecting mirror matter on Earth via thermal imprint on ordinary matter."  The PMPKM interaction is a scientifically-based mechanism providing a basis for understanding how mirror matter and ordinary matter interact and produce measurable effects. And how very interesting it is to note that the underlying nature of the interaction and the effects are VAMPIRICAL, i.e., the Mirror Matter particles by their very nature will 'suck' energy out of ordinary matter, producing a measurable heat loss..! One strong and obvious implication is that instead of using the more elaborate pink-light apparatus and procedure, Dogen could have simply applied a thermal instrument to measure Sayid for signs of heat loss arising from PMPKM. Indeed, perhaps on Lost there is a way to detect mirror radiation directly, and the secret lies in the PINK LIGHT Device.... Heh-heh-heh....  PMPKM opens a portal of insight into how dark and light matter may be interacting not only: (1) within dark side candidates, showing a quite literal/real/physical side to the struggle endured by Sayid and others in resisting the infective wiles of the evil one, but also (2) between the mirror-mattered ISLAND and those with whom it comes into contact.... Yes, here I am proposing that the very same mechanism we saw operating in a VAMPIRICAL fashion within Sayid's body may well be operating between the ISLAND, the Castaways, the Others/NewOthers, etc. 4. Kudos to Santa/fruit for first broaching this notion on the following site: 5. See especially Section 2.4 MACHOs-- page 11 onward-- in Foot's fascinating 2008 article, available at the link provided in Endnote 1. 6. For more information on quantum tunneling-- a decidedly intriguing aspect of the natural world-- please see: 7. Quantum foam's relevance for Lost was notably invoked through the John Archibald Wheeler easter-egged reference unearthed by Doc Jensen, in his observation that it was a bald John Locke who was wheeling the island back to spacetime integrity. In terms of the basic concept itself: "Quantum foam, also referred to as spacetime foam, is a concept in quantum mechanics, devised by John Wheeler in 1955. The foam is supposedly the foundations of the fabric of the universe,[1] but it can also be used as a qualitative description of subatomic spacetime turbulence at extremely small distances of the order of the Planck length. At such small scales of time and space the uncertainty principle allows particles and energy to briefly come into existence, and then annihilate, without violating conservation laws. As the scale of time and space being discussed shrinks, the energy of the virtual particles increases. Since energy curves spacetime according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, this suggests that at sufficiently small scales the energy of the fluctuations would be large enough to cause significant departures from the smooth spacetime seen at larger scales, giving spacetime a "foamy" character.... Quantum foam is theorized to be created by virtual particles of very high energy. Virtual particles appear in quantum field theory, where they arise briefly and then annihilate during particle interactions, in such a way that they affect the measured outputs of the interaction even though the virtual particles are themselves space, and these "vacuum fluctuations" affect the properties of the vacuum, giving it a nonzero energy known as vacuum energy, a type of zero-point energy (however, physicists are uncertain about the magnitude of this energy).The Casimir effect can also be understood in terms of the behavior of virtual particles in the empty space between two parallel plates. Ordinarily quantum field theory does not deal with virtual particles of sufficient energy to curve spacetime significantly, so quantum foam is a speculative extension of these concepts which imagines the consequences of such high-energy virtual particles at very short distances and times. Some physicists theorize the formation of wormholes therein; speculation arising from this includes the possibility of hyperspatial links to other universes." [Source: [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_foam ] 8. Please see my prior posting with regard to the Nazi/die Glocke connections: 9. One intriguing implication is that the record-skipping future Faraday may have been able to ameliorate the time-flung castaways' nosebleeding fugues, had he sufficient prior knowledge of the whereabouts of the darksided dungeon lying just beneath the corkport in the LOL cave. In their lightside-overcharged, hyperbaryoned state, quaffing a fine darksided ALEful brew-- especially earlier in the record-skipping phase-- may have lessened or even reversed the ill effects. Hmmm... Will Hurley pull a Marty McFly and write down directions to the darksided dungeon lying within the shadowy depths of the LOL cave, in young Faraday's fabled notebook, effectively Doc-Browning the situation? Will he? Should he? 10. For more information on the vile and nonvile vortices arrayed in the planetary energy grid, please see the following: | |