Another thought just hit me.

You know how the map shows the other stations in kinda a circular pattern.

Could there be a particle accelerator "super collider" below the islands surface?

Could possibly explain some off the magnetic intererence.

(WARNING:diving off the deep end here)

They could have been experimenting with creating an artificial black hole and thats when they had the "incident" from the training video. It might have become unstable and releasing mass amounts of Hawkings radiation. Which could explain the so called sickness people died from. Later they closed up shop and now push the button every 108 minutes. No more sickness. And they just release the built up energy via the button.


Just to clarify, most of this is theoretical in the "real world", but this is a tv show.

And i just like bouncing ideas around with other people to collaborate together. And its just damn exciting trying to piece this whole thing all together.

My only fear is that the writers produce some really simple explantion that lets alot of viewers down.

Peace

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