The OFFICIAL "LOST AWARDS" THREAD

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Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

I think they are. Remember the "X-ray" they had while down in the drilling chamber? You could see the wheel. And thats the same Hatch where the 108 minute computer is later installed. Connected somehow me thinks.

I have forgotten about any xray. One source of power is fine, but magnetism for time travel is not what Faraday was doing, he was using radiation.

Originally Posted by sfmarine

I believe this is answered in S.5. Marvin Candle mentions that the magnetism will allow them to manipulate time. The DI was using bunnies for experiments for time travel.

I don't follow. The donkey wheel existed hundreds of years before the DI, we saw the statue in full form when Locke was resetting the wheel. I think the island goes back before the statue, which is way before the Blackrock, and I believe the island and time machine are essentially one 'thing'. Overall the technical ability to build a time machine is way beyond anything man has achieved, the DI were manipulating a device that someone else built.