Eloise the rat

[weakleydrake]

In "The Constant", Faraday claims that he sent Eloise to the future when she is first getting taught how to walk the maze, and that is how she is able to get to the end on the first try...but then she ends up dieing before she can be taught how to run it...so she travels to a time that end up never happening.......i thought you cant change the future.............im confused

[spinaltumor]

You can't change the past given "whatever happened, happened" but I guess that doesn't account for the future.

At least not consciousness-wise.

[lazymusicbox]

It's almost like Eloise traveled like Desmond. She traveled consciously. She can change her future. The Losties, on the other hand, can't change their future and that's where "whatever happened, happened" comes in. They can't change their future because when they time travel, wherever they travel (past, present, future) becomes their new present.

[spinaltumor]

Because their whole selves are traveling, not just their consciousness like Eloise and Desmond.

[jacksloststepkid]

The way I look at this is that there is this small snippet in time that happens that is then cut out of the time line.

So in the original timeline, faraday teaches Eloise how to run the maze. At the beginning of the day he experiments with his light. This day it sends Eloise's consioisness forward in time to when she would later learn the maze. Her future self is transferee back and knows immediately how to run the maze. That portion of the time line where Eloise has learned the maze is now outside the current timeline. Whether it remains as an alternate timeline is a question.

If it does perhaps this explains the sickness. Now Eloise is not transferinh back and forth to her past/future self, but her self in this slightly altered alternate timeline. With each trip slightly more is altered removing the timeline away from the original until the traveller dies. Or maybe not.

[julerfan]

No wonder why you get nose bleeds and brain hemerages, my brain hurts just tring to think about this. But what you say 'Jacksloststepkid' makes sense, it's kind of like that 10th dimension view where two dimension fold over another dimension to directly jump from one to another.

[markedman]

I like this a lot. Simple and elegant.