
The layer of water in the sky between them and the sun explains the unusual light scattering that Faraday mentions. This also gives reason as to why submarines are the only feasible way in. When Desmond let the magnetism get out of control, the bubble got so large that it created a hole in the ocean surface allowing objects from the outside world in, such as flight 815. With nothing to hold the ocean up the so called 'island' was flooded, as evidenced by "LAX Part 1." The Dharma Initiative was trying to see if the Earth's magnetic field could be harnessed into usable electricity providing enough energy for fossil fuels to become obsolete, and thus changing the climate change element of the Valenzetti Equation. When Jughead was detonated it destroyed the magnetism of the miniature iron core therefore, the bubble protecting the island no longer existed.


The island therefore is not an island but merely a dry patch of the pacific sea bed. This iron core has enough magnetism to repel the ocean up several miles creating a bubble. When the earth colided with Theia to form the moon, Theia hit earth at the island location in the south pacific, as a result of this the smaller iron core from Theia was lodged miles under the pacific, leeching magnetism from the magma dynamo that causes earth's magnetic field.This theory will be updated or revised as the need arises. It is not written with the intention of covering every little detail of the who, what, where, when and how’s of the series, but to offer an overview of the major plot arcs. These thoughts are compiled from both the canon of the series Lost itself, and theories of how that canon ties together.

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