That's going to be in the series finale!

I'm hoping the the time warpage works out so that during the 100 days or whatever that they've been on the island, time has been passing at our speed in the rest of the world and Faraday et al are in 2008.

Ah, that could be possible. Good point.

The Red Sox won the World Series in October 2004. Lost S3 premiered in October 2006, two years later. This is when Ben showed Jack the video to convince him he was in contact with the real world. According to Wikipedia, this is late November/early December 2004 in Island Time.

Oh, definitely. Very intriguing. But, yet, they still seem to be on a parallel time track with the rest of the world; it's not like they're clearly years in the past or future.

Considering there's now a Charlotte Staples Lewis on the show, I'm wondering if it's less parallel and more of shifting time. You couldn't count on X amount of time having passed in Narnia, just because it had in England.

Good point. Could you assume it was more (or less) consistently but not by how much, or could it be anything?

In Narnia and England, I mean.

It could be anything with Narnia.

Thanks, that'll be a good bit of information to rattle around in my brain.

I don't know if it's a clue or just more fun with character names, but when Frank gives Daniel the phone so he can call the ship prior to his experiment he (Frank) says, "If Minkowski gets on the line hang up immediately." Twenty years ago I knew Maxwell's equations (including which one he got from Faraday) and what the Lorentz transformation was and who Minkowski was, but I certainly didn't pay enough attention in class to remember it a couple decades later. I know we have some Buffista physicists, but I don't know if any of them watch Lost. If so maybe s/he can explain his contributions & their connection to the show. In the link above scroll down to the part about "The Einstein-Minkowski Spacetime":

The characteristic feature of Galileo's Spacetime was the set of horizontal slices representing "planes of simultaneity". On a given plane, all of its events are simultaneous. This is the notion of Absolute Time, in which all observers agree on the elapsed-time between two given events.[...]

Einstein's extension of the Principle of Relativity to all physical laws requires us to abandon Galileo's Spacetime---in particular, its universal "planes of simultaneity"---that is, the notion of Absolute Time.

In its place, we have the Einstein-Minkowski Spacetime... The characteristic feature of this spacetime is the Light Cone, a double-cone centered at each event in Spacetime.

I would excerpt a coherent explanation of that but I don't really understand it. And even when I sober up I don't think I'll understand it.

I would never have made that connection. Referencing special relativity lends a tiny smidgen of credence to my baby-black-hole-somewhere-on-the-island theory. THough the whole conversing by radio with no lag screws that up, doesn't it?

So, so far from a Unified Theory of Lost.

It's official: Lost is moving to the 10 pm Eastern/9 Central timeslot come April 24th. After the returning episode of Grey's Anatomy.