I think that this episode could be the means by which the writers explain Walt's incredible growth spurt. Considering that we now know there's a time warp of some kind affecting the island, i think it's very possible that Walt and/or Michael will be considerably older when we next see them. This all assumes, of course, that they don't just write Walt off the show instead of trying to explain his growth spurt. Thoughts?

Since island time is theoretically slower, I think Walt left the island at some point and aged and is now back (in some form or other) on the island.

I think that this episode could be the means by which the writers explain Walt's incredible growth spurt. Considering that we now know there's a time warp of some kind affecting the island, i think it's very possible that Walt and/or Michael will be considerably older when we next see them. This all assumes, of course, that they don't just write Walt off the show instead of trying to explain his growth spurt. Thoughts?



Considerably older I don't know the time difference was 1/2 hour. I heard some one post that this would be four days in the grand scheme of things. Unless the further you get away from the Island the greater the time lag. That would be very freaky if Michael comes back considerably older however.I like that potential though.

I remember, based on the whole infertility issue, that I calculated that time on the island could be 16 times slower than time OFF the island.
Now if Walt's sudden growth is gonna be attributed to such time dilation. We must agree that it might be pretty significant in order to make him look really (as in real life actor) older. We might be talking at least a couple of YEARS older.
So, could it be around 2008 off the island????
But then again, the A-team seems to have been assembled right after the plane was found?

Could it also depends on what bearing you use to leave the island???
Some poster posted a graphic that showed that this time dilation effect could be greater at lower angles. Perhaps the 325 bearing, close to the N , is where the time dilation effect is the highest because of it being in the Magnetic pole of the Snowglobe?

My understand is that the time difference is measured in a 30:1 ratio. What took the rocket 1 minute to travel in real world took 30 minutes in island time.

This 30:1 ratio could explain Walt's growth if he's growing at a real world pace instead of an island pace. It could explain Richard Alpert's appearant agelessness. It could explain the failed pregnancies concieved on the island. It could explain Rose's cancer remission.

In theory...the 100 days they've spent on the island could transale into over 8 years in the real world.

I agree the 31 minutes isn't necessarily a fixed time offset. I like the idea of it being related to the bearing, which ultimately has to do with the variability in strength of the field surrounding the island (like the way a magnetic field varies in strength from north to south).


So maybe when the missle comes in at one trajectory, it hits sort of an event horizon, and doesn't pop out until 31 minutes later on the island. Maybe it enters a different trajectory, and pops up 4 years later. OR, what it if appears 3 days earlier?

It could work the opposite way too. So when Michael comes back to the island after living in "The World" for 4 years, he gets thrown back to island +100 days.

Bear in the mind the whole Walt thing might be a red herring, since we don't know if that's the real Walt, Smokey, an "astral projection" or if the "real Walt" has aged that far.

Couldn't Walt's apparent rapid aging just be because the actor was young and time has actually progressed in the "real world" of filming ?
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Couldn't Walt's apparent rapid aging just be because the actor was young and time has actually progressed in the "real world" of filming ?
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OMG How did you figure that out????

Couldn't Walt's apparent rapid aging just be because the actor was young and time has actually progressed in the "real world" of filming ?
:)

Well, obviously :biggrin: . But if they didn't want his character to age, they could have shot from a different angle to make him look less tall, and not made a big deal of him being "Taller Ghost Walt"

Couldn't Walt's apparent rapid aging just be because the actor was young and time has actually progressed in the "real world" of filming ?
:)

(slaps head) now why didn't I figure that out???!!:rolleyes: