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Originally Posted by Rausch
The island is not "anchored" in time.
When they talked about "moving" the island I don't think the "Shack people" meant in space, I think they meant in time.
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Which is fine, but there has to be an anchor somewhere right? I'm fine with your theory that the island can go back and forth in time relative to the outside world. But how can the doctor go into the future without actually going into the future? I'll just give my best analogy to show why this confuses me:
Lets say you and I build a time travel machine(basically what people are calling the field around the island) that we know will send us 5 years into the future. You and I also invent a phone that can communicate with the future. We call the president and say we are going to send him something into his portal so we know that you are arriving 5 years later. Now, lets say I wanted to kill you to keep all of the profits of our time machine to myself, so I decide I'm going to kill you and send your body through the portal, thus leaving no evidence of my crime. Your dead body CAN NOT go through that time machine until I kill you, right? I can't "send" your body through the portal with you standing right next to me can I? No, I would have to kill you first, then send you through the portal.
So how can the doctor go forward in time to the island if he never actually crossed the barrier into the island? In my hypothetical scenerio, if you were the owner of the time machine 5 years in the future, would you expect things to randomly start appearing in your time machine even though I, 5 years in the past, never put anything in it?