If you accept the time anomaly of the payload vs Dan's clock translating into 95 days on the island is equivalent to the time from the crash until today (2/15/08), then the rapid healing of wounds, broken bones etc. would make sense. Time on the island would 'appear' to be slower, but the bodies of those on the island would still heal at a normal, non-island rate, which would seem to be rapid on the island. This would also explain

a) the 'giant Walt' phenomenon (especially if he was off-island for a time) and

b) the rapidly aging Ben phenomenon prior to the purge. (the young Ben scenes could have been much more time compressed than they seemed)

c) the lack of surprise from Frank re: Sox winning the series

I still don't have an explanation for the lack of aging among the healthy adults (see Richard), but I think this may be the road we are starting down.

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it wouldn't explain the healing

within the islands sphere of influence,EVERYTHING moves in the same time frame,even biological processes

I agree, everything within the sphere of the Island should still be relative ...
So it wouldn't explain the aging either.

And how does Frank not being "surprised" about the Sox winning, have anything to do with it?
I put it in quotes because I didn't think he seemed surprised necessarily, he wanted the other team to win, and having the Sox win was a complete fluke.

It wouldn't explain the healing or the fatal miscarriages, but it could explain the aging. (It also explains why travel into and out of the island is so difficult).

So far the only people we've seen age are Ben Linus (child to adult) and Walt. If the island is frozen in time (or, more accurately, moving at an accelerated rate through time) then people off-island age faster than people on-island. So if Ben left the island a lot for his clandestine missions, he would, from the perspective of the people on the island, appear to age very quickly.

So what may have happened is that Walt was ten when he left the island on day 67, and is fifteen when Locke sees his projection on day 93 (which is how old the actor was at that airing date), then five years pass off-island for each 26 days on the island. Of course, the time dilation may not be constant (some days are "slower" than others).

What this means is not that Richard ages slowly, but that he appears ot age slowly because he never leaves the island.

Also, in the Lost Experience, we are told that Alvar Hanso is over 100 years old. What if he's not. What if he's really Magnus Hanso of the Black Rock, who spends so much time on the island that while he is only in his 70's, 200 years have passed on the outside world?

This also means that when the "Oceanic 6" are "rescued" they are going to have to pretend they were stranded on the island for many years, when, in reality (their reality, anyway), it's only been about 4 months. It also means that when, as I suspect, the Oceanic 6 return to the island, form the islanders' perspective only a few days will have passed.

it wouldn't explain the healing

within the islands sphere of influence,EVERYTHING moves in the same time frame,even biological processes

I wonder if the biological is true. Remember the xray that Juliet was shown of the young woman with an old woman's uterus? I think we were meant to surmise that the young woman was someone on the island. That's why Juliet is being recruited - to try and determine why this is happening and why women who get pregnant on the island can't carry to term (they die around their 5th month of pregnancy). Maybe biological processes are sped up in some way?

Explain why Aaron doesn't look like seven already.

Richard was successfully born on the Island...that could be the difference.

What if the problem is that when mortal (from the outside) women are impregnated on the Island, they are trying to give birth to immortal children?

Perhaps something isnt synched up right, thus you end up with these women who have wombs that look like they belong to a 65 year old woman and their bodies reject the newborn.


If you accept the time anomaly of the payload vs Dan's clock translating into 95 days on the island is equivalent to the time from the crash until today (2/15/08), then the rapid healing of wounds, broken bones etc. would make sense. Time on the island would 'appear' to be slower, but the bodies of those on the island would still heal at a normal, non-island rate, which would seem to be rapid on the island. This would also explain

a) the 'giant Walt' phenomenon (especially if he was off-island for a time) and

b) the rapidly aging Ben phenomenon prior to the purge. (the young Ben scenes could have been much more time compressed than they seemed)

c) the lack of surprise from Frank re: Sox winning the series

I still don't have an explanation for the lack of aging among the healthy adults (see Richard), but I think this may be the road we are starting down.

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Aaron wasnt conceived on the Island.
Explain why Aaron doesn't look like seven already.

What this means is not that Richard ages slowly, but that he appears ot age slowly because he never leaves the island.

I don't know about this. He does leave the island for at least short periods. I vote for victim of the life extension project, or that Richard is Jacob. Everyone knows Jacob is a Dick.

The only outlier is Richard, and maybe Jacob. I think Aaron and Alex are age appropriate because everyone "real" age according the rate of time passage whereever they are.

Aging is a biological process. So, the reason the fetuses die and the women have much older reproductive organs can't be just that reproduction is a biological process.

Walt has aged quickly compared to the Losties BECAUSE he made it off the island with Michael.

Richard does leave the island. So, he must be experiencing "normal aging", faster than "island aging," for the brief times that he is off the island. I'll bet he high-tails it back to the island when his mission is over.

The time rate differential would not explain rapid healing in and of itself. The healing of a person on the island would take place at island time. So, relatively speaking, it would seem normal to someone on the island. The rapid healing must be coming from some other force, i.e., the tremendous electromagnetic powers of the island or, of course, something supernatural.

I agree that when the Losties do eventually return to the island, not much time will have passed on the island probably a couple weeks.

From the beginning, I have thought that Alvar Hanso was the same guy as the one on the Black Rock, the one mentioned on the MAP. I thought it might have something to do with some force or natural resource on the island that bestowed long life. Now that the time rate differential was confirmed by Faraday's experiment, I'm sure that Alvar has been living on the island since he landed over 200 years ago with the Black Rock. I think he created a powerful corporate empire over the last 200+ years from the island through his underlings, possibly the rest of the crew. I think he is Jacob.

I also think that the longer you stay on the island, you may build up some kind of time inertia that will keep your body aging at the slower rate even when you're off the island for short periods of time.

I've also thought that Adam and Eve were Amelia Earhart and Fred. However, if that were the case, wouldn't they still be around 50 years-old???