Could it be a superconductor used in electro magnetic experiments? The critical temp for a superconductor is 108 degrees Kelvin... maybe by "whoever" hitting the button is resetting it so the superconductor doesn't overheat or overload....

Thoughts?

I dont know, you could be right about that. What happened in that other hatch anyway? Looks torn up and wrecked. Could that be where the "incident" took place? Maybe someone forgot to push the button there

There are tons of different types of superconductors and they all have different temperatures they superconduct at. I also don't think there are any that superconduct at 108K.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductor

I dont know, you could be right about that. What happened in that other hatch anyway? Looks torn up and wrecked. Could that be where the "incident" took place? Maybe someone forgot to push the button there

You know my first impression of the new hatch was that it looked like it might have been for the zoology. The area where the tail people were looked like a holding area. Just my first impression.

the 108k temp on a superconductor (superconducting magnet) is the upper thermal limit. In laymans terms over 108 it blows... If you buy into the "Philidelphia project' forklore a superconducting magnet would fit with the magnetic field studies and even possible explain why no one has seen jets etc flying over and why the oceanic flight was so off course (possible the island is being cloaked) back to the Phili project folklore, some say the super strong mag fields warped time remember Hurley found the guy's wife who heard the number while being a radio listener during WWII (1940's) ? Lastly on strong mag fields, some believe the cause psychotic behavior (the illness?) just some thoughts

All superconductors are magnets if you run a current through them or induce a current. The 108K number you are throwing out is completely arbitrary. This site lists superconductors that 'work' at above 108K so there isn't some law of physics that limits superconductors to below 108K.

http://superconductors.org/Type2.htm

...some say the super strong mag fields warped time remember Hurley found the guy's wife who heard the number while being a radio listener during WWII (1940's) ?

It wasn't WWII, it was just 16 years ago - circa 1988 - roughly when Danielle was shipwrecked. Remember she and her crew heard the broadcast, too.

from "NUMBERS":

MARTHA TOOMEY: Oh. You're talking about the numbers.

HURLEY: Yes. The numbers. Exactly. Do you know anything about them?

MARTHA TOOMEY: Sam and Leonard were stationed at a listening post monitoring long wave transmissions over the pacific. Boring job. Sam hated it. Nothing to do but listen to static night after night -- till one night, back sixteen years ago, there's something in the static. A voice cuts through -- a voice repeating those number over and over again.