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ELTaino74
09-22-2005, 12:09 PM
I don't know if this was ever posted, or it was talked about, but i found this on a discussion tread on the web, sorry to say i don't remember the website but i did managed to copy the post. Not taking the credit for writing this, just copied it. Check it out.....

"I recently found an interesting natuarlly occuring thoery found in our world that states everyone has a mirror image somewhere in the world. You may have heard of this. Roussau's genetic mirror theory says that everyone in the world has an exact twin somewhere, however according to the theory you never encounter this person, by laws of probablitly and other natuaral occuring phemnomen. Its the theory that was devised by a French Mathematician named Marseille Roussau in the year 1988. He used a series of numbers to explain his theory. Now I know you're not going to believe this but here goes.

4 8 15 16 23 42

Let me explain...

The 4 stands for 4 degrees of separation (not 6 or 7 as commonly stated. Roussau believed that everyone in the world was connected by four different people. So in theory could meet yourself by using four different people connected to you. Example: Your brother's, boss's, neighbor nephew, knows your mirror. Hard to believe, I know but keep reading.

The 8 stands for the eight continent, or the only place in the world where you could meet your mirror. He calculated it to be somewhere in the south pacific. Now we know its not actually as large as the other contintents but its used figurtively because everyone in all 7 continents could meet there mirror on the 8th universal continent.

The 15 stands for the chances of you acually meeting yourself on this place, as in 15 out of 4,815,162,342. Look at the second set "815." Ring any bells? Interesting huh?

The 16 stands for the maximum amount of people that could encounter thier twin all at the same time. Think about the number of main characters.

The 23 is the number of years apart your twin and yourself are. You are not the same age as your twin. By chance and probablity it takes 23 years exactly for the same genes that made you to be connected again to form another you.

The 42 stands for the maximimum number of years your twin and yourself can be alive at the same time. However people do die at diffferent times so thats why everyone isn't dead at 75. For example my twin was born on Sept. 6 2003 b/c i was born on Spet. 6 1980. Now that doesn't mean i will die in the year 2045, I could, but its not set in stone. My twin could die when he is 16, and then the whole thing starts over again.

This is all very complicated and I don't know how well I explained it but the connections with the show are too coinidental to not be real.

Roussau and his team (wife, included) went to the 8th continent. You can figure out how they died and why by the numbers and equations. It also fits with every character. You can predict when they will die. There are others on the island who are twins of the survivors, but have been there 23 years longer.

There is a book Roussau wrote 16 years ago in 1988 when he came up with the theory. Thats where I got it from."

What does everyone think about it???

Willow7697
09-22-2005, 12:24 PM
if we can validate this it would be awesome!

Virtual
09-22-2005, 12:56 PM
Sounds made up to me.

Semperamabilis
09-22-2005, 04:19 PM
no such author can be found online...
sorry.. sounded like a great idea!

belly0fdesire
09-22-2005, 06:53 PM
That's a great story, but I can't find anything more about it on the web and I'm pretty good at validitating this sort of thing. It sure was fun to read tho, and I'll keep looking into and report back if I find anything more about this. Fun story tho!

cramorse
09-22-2005, 07:21 PM
Sounds as if someone tailored this slightly bizarre theory to "Lost."

violentcorpse
09-22-2005, 08:48 PM
i think it may have been dropped by a person from lost to get us in the right direction
the author your looking for is Aubrey; search Look alikes. you'll find it......

Dberg
09-25-2005, 03:28 PM
OK. I just looked up Ney Aubrey. She does have a book about look-alikes, and images, but nothing in her article refers to the numbers ...

hijinx
09-25-2005, 04:36 PM
We've already picked this apart on the LB. The post was originally made on the ABC boards by a poster named "notLost17" -- he claims that he got this from a book about a French theorist named Roussau (that's not a typo -- he is not referring to J-J Rousseau, but someone from the Modern Era whose name does not include the "e"). The first name is something like Marsielle and he supposedly died in 1988, the same year his book about this theory was published. It was supposedly published in France, and he claims to have gotten the book, entitled "Genetic Mirror Theory," from a friend of his that goes to university in Paris.

He's made claims that the book is legit, even though no one has been able to find this theorist's name or this book on the internet anywhere. He said he would scan the cover, but he is not very "computer literate." If you find the thread on the ABC boards, you will see there are like 250+ pages of comments and he has only commented a handful of times.

This has all the evidence of being a hoax. He specifically tells everyone to "spread the theory around" -- which is why it is popping up on blogs and Lost sites everywhere. He even tried to post about it here. When I called him out on it, he never responded. He wants attention and he is getting it. Secondly, learning how to use a scanner and post an image is not rocket science. I think he is just trying to get out of having to show proof -- or buy time so he can put together a faux book cover. He has said that he is NOT from ABC or the show, and really -- that is probably the only truth that comes out in his posts. There is NO WAY that JJ, Damon or Burky would have allowed this out if it is indeed the whole theory behind the series. It's SEASON 2 -- why spoil it for all of these viewers so very early in the show's run? It's insane. And I can pretty confidently tell you that VERY FEW people inside BR and ABC know the answers to the questions this theory claims to have answered. Damon is admittedly very spoiler-phobic. The actors themselves ONLY get the script pages with their own dialogue on them. Practically nobody gets a full script.

Anyway, if you guys want to discuss the possibilities and maybe track this theory throughout the season, that would be cool. I'm all about revealing a hoax ;)

Amber
10-01-2005, 07:09 AM
poop.

plume
10-01-2005, 03:38 PM
The guy who made it up already admitted it was a hoax. Too bad, I kinda liked it.

dhotmes
10-04-2005, 04:29 PM
Yup, hoax:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mattalcala/15575.html

Good one, though ;P