Penny & SeasonTwo Cliffhanger! I know HOW

So Penny Whitmore spent a fortune keeping a plane with sensitive equipment in the air waiting for an electromagnetic discharge.

So now it is clear to me that she got the information from the Physicist that Desmond talked to in the Pub. We were told that Desmond told him everything about the island all the way through pushing the button and turning the key.

This will open many more theories about Time Travel and Fate but one thing is for sure.

We now know how Penny "fit in" tho last seasons ending.

You heard it here first. Again.

Interesting theory. How would she have ended up talking to this guy though?

In the air, it looked to me that those men were in a snowbound area, not in the clouds.

they were on a ship!! Somewhere very cold..Hence all the coats,hats and gloves.

They were in the artic waiting for there little computer to go off saying it had detected an anomily...

My question is: They say did we miss it again... After watching last night are they detecting the same abnormality over and over?

Yeah i am thinking arctic. or antatrctic...

So about this thoery. I dont think that the physicist is involved. I dont even think that conversation happened. It was all in Des' head.

HERE is how i see it. I dont believe that Desmond went back in time. I think something metaphysical happend ( ie he and locke and ecko were transported out of the hatch...) but i dont really think he was sent back to the past. I think he was all in his head. There is about 80% percent of the brain that is unused. I believe his ESP and abilities are the awakenings of those sections of his brain. I think the sky turning purple and the emp that went off triggered his brain. If any of you have seen or read anything about metaphysics... being able to see something or hear something that newtons laws dont explain... IS all part of it. If you dont understand.... i'll say it like this.

Lets say you you dont believ that you can see a ball float in mid air... Well thats becuase since birth, you have been told about gravity and experienced it for yourself. So you have convinced yourself that is the way the world is.... but if you were raised to tap into your mind, record your dreams, and have an open mind about the laws of our world... there is a huge possibility that you could make a ball float. YOU MAY BE THE ONLY ONE who can see it, but that is becuase others would then be stuck in that old mode of thinking.

This would explain everything. Him getting hit in the head with a baseball bat in the bar wouldnt "time travel" him back to the island. If the ring somehow made it back to the island with him i would think so. but no... or even his clothes fom the bar. We have no real evidence that he was truely in the past...

I'm with you... Through the whole episode I was thinking that when is gonna show him waking up or realizing the things didn't happen... Then it didn't... It all kinda reminded me about Pheonoman with John Travolta... Could it be that the purple sky & released something and now he has a tumor on his brain like in that movie and he is getting use out of more of his brain that "normal"

Tumors are negative. degenerative... and usually prevent and take from normal body functions...

i doubt a tumor would cause this... and the purple sky affected everyone so tumors might seem more present than just des and locke and ecko...

True but Desmond was the one closest to the implosion & I was going partly from the movie where it was a tumor that was killing him that enabled in that case extream intelligence & what not...

I'm with Benmer in that I'm not sure it actually happened - I think it might be just what Desmond himself described - I have a concussion and the ring woman was his consciencness trying to wake him. If it was time travel the physicist was his best mate (desmond said) so it is likely that his girlfriend and his best mate would have certainly met, or at least known of each other. The physicist said that Des was really starting to scare him (with the soccer game talk) so maybe he would go and talk to Penny about Des' odd behavior? What do you think? Oh, one more thing.......... If Des' flashback had really happened why doesn't Des say, "Hey Charlie, remember when you were playing your guitar outside the bank and I came up to you and told you your name and talked about the hatch and computer...." Did Charlie ever say that Desmond looked familiar to him?