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Mailbag: More on the Lost HEMA Theory

Published Friday, February 16, 2007 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

My new Lost penpal Todd Hostager writes...

Sean:

I've left the HEMA Theory statement on the "Home" page of my website. FYI, there is a one-paragraph addition to the virus section, near the beginning on the "Home" page, touching on Ethan as evidence that DHARMA may have conducted gene therapy experiments on humans. In particular, this may account for Ethan's super-human strength. The first application may have been to devise a gene therapy approach to amplifying human psychic powers. See the "Home" page section "What's Up With The Virus?", in this regard.

More importantly, on a separate page on the HEMA website, I've placed some intriguing commentary on Lost Episode #56, involving Desmond, identifying five levels of HEMAtic existence manifest on the show, and drawing in work by a quantum physicist, which provides some of the scientific underpinning for the HEMA dynamic....

Here's the link to the new, second page on my site: http://losthematheory.com/newepisodes.aspx

Of course, please feel free to share/distribute this site with any and all who may be interested.... Gotta run home for some supper, now! Todd

Now for my new two cents...In this week's episode, we saw the imploded remnants of the Swan hatch, which reminded me of something we haven't seen: Anyone pushing the number buttons to disperse the electromagnetic energy every 108 minutes. What will be the consequences of this? I'm guessing the show's writers somehow tie this into the real-life South Pacific tsunami at the end of 2004. They already hinted at another real-life incident last week, when Juliet dated her arrival at the islands as Sept. 11, 2001. Of course, we'll need another flashback for her to sort that all out. Right? As for Desmond's "flashes" back and forward, I'm figuring that his close proximity to the electromagnetic pulse resulted in quite a bit of time warping. More to come. Obviously.

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