For me the Last Recruit brought up more questions then answers. But first we got the show down we had been waiting for Jack vs. Anti Luck. The winner? I don’t really know. It seemed more like a stale mate then anything else with no real clear winner.
We did however get some interesting information from this conversation for one anti Locke said that john had to be dead before he could look like him. And next he had been Christian Shephard the whole time. Which at first made sense for me but then that does not explain other appearances off island. How do we explain that??
We know Smokey can not go over water as Smokey, but can as a man, that’s he traveled to the other island. So how is it that the image of Christian Shephard appeared off island? Was that a ghost? Or maybe it was a projection of Jacob? Similar entities similar abilities perhaps?
Then there is the whole “Christian Shephard” held Aaron part, which really freaks me out. Since a lot of the focus has been on hands and touching anti Locke this season does that mean that Aaron is evil?? Of course he didn’t really do so voluntarily so does that make a difference? Maybe he just touched the blanket and not the baby’s face? I can’t really remember.
Also Claire refers to her friend and her dad as keeping her company on the island for three years…that’s two different people. Why would she refer to them as such if she knew that MIB was pretending to be Christian Shephard?
As well remember Eloise Hawking made Jack take dead Locke with him. Did she know what would happen? Was she in league with Smokey the whole time?
All I know is that for me the whole Christian Shephard issue is far from over, there are just too many outlying factors to deal with yet.
The next interesting moment happened in the flash side ways when Claire said "Its him, its him" what does that mean, did she see something? All in all the sideways universe was interesting; I liked how this week we had a multi centric alt universe storyline. After all we are getting closer and closer to the finale, this may be the easiest way to finish up all of the story telling.
We are also seeing people mention they are running into each other more – sawyer even mentions it in the episode to Kate, and I think that’s the point. We got Sun, Jin and Locke running into each other, Kate Sawyer and Miles, Illana, Claire, Desmond, and Jack, and finally Jack and Locke all interacting with each other in their alt universes.
Next we finally get Claire and Jack talking to each other and realizing that Claire knows that Jack is her brother, how anti Locke would have known that im not sure, except for the fact that he seems to have some memories of John Locke, so he must have had some memories of Christian Shephard. She also says something very interesting about anti Locke. "You decided the moment you let him talk to you, just like the rest of us. Like it or not your with him now." I’m not so sure about that, after all Jack, Kate, and Sawyer all seem to be very wary of Anti Locke and they have all talked with him. I don’t really think they are with him.
I think Claire and Sayid are with him, mainly because they were infected. But I think in this episode Claire and Sayid were starting to not feel his influence as much, especially Claire. She is with friends now, and seems to be really with them even though she did say, “If John finds out, he’s going to be mad.” And I really do hope that she has turned to the light side.
Speaking of the light side, nice reference to the dark side and star wars on Hurley’s part. I love it when they put in star wars references into Lost.
We also got confirmation that Desmond is alive for now. The throw down the well did not kill him, as well that was not the same well as we have seen before on the island, different location all together...unless of course this is a continuity error.
The next interesting moment comes from jack when he says leaving the island doesn’t feel right, maybe it’s afraid of what happens when we stay – an interesting idea which I like, but I still believe some people deserve to leave the island as well.
Back in the alt universe we learn that Sun’s baby is alive, which how does a baby survive a gun shot to the stomach? Still not clear on that. We then see Jack operating on Alt Locke. And there we see are one and only mirror of the episode when Jack looks down into one to see Locke on the table. Other then that real mirror there were no mirrors, or reflections in this episode, however the characters were kind of mirroring themselves from alt universe to real universe in this episode.
But as always it seems with this season the real story line is more interesting then the alt universe and this week we finally get the Jin and Sun reunion that we have been waiting for since the very end of season 4 when they were torn apart. It was emotional and bitter sweet, and did not last as long as I would have liked especially since it looked like Zoey and her team from Widmore are going to execute them all. Argh!
Jack arrives back on the main island after jumping from the boat with the rest of our losties on it and arrives just in time for bombs to go exploding and for those really cool sound affects. Jack seems to have lost consciousness and anti Locke comes up to him and says "Your with me now.” Really?? Are you sure??
The last question up in the air this week is whether Desmond is dead or not now. Anti Locke has Sayid kill him, but after Desmond talks with Sayid and tells him “What will you tell her, on why she’s alive again.” I think that hit something in him, made him think. Perhaps brought the humanity back into him. Perhaps he is turning to the light side of the force as well.
But after all is said and done it still feels like last weeks promo - I don’t know where we are going, and what is happening. And I wonder is there any other way the writers can make me more confused then I am now?
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Everybody Loves Hugo review
Everybody Hates Hugo, no Everybody Loves Hugo. This week’s episode’s started with showing us again how very different this alternate world is, how upside down it is. Hugo is the happiest person in the work, the luckiest person in the world, he has never been in a mental institution, and he’s happy…except his mother thinks he’s unhappy because he doesn’t have a woman. Got to love Hurley’s mom. But even with all of the interesting parts of the alternate reality and the great connections that were made, especially with Desmond pushing Hurley towards a certain future, and with the great moments of Libby and Hurley. I was not expecting to see her in this episode. Looking back I am seeing more importance in the alt reality, but I still prefer the current time line.
The current timelines story was riveting, intriguing and ghostly…ok I threw that one in. Ghost Michael shows up on the island as Hurley is talking to Libby’s grave and says "I'm here to stop you from getting everyone killed" - Michael - darn you ABC for spoiling him in last weeks promo.
However what was not spoiled for me or I think anyone else was Illana’s end, where she got her artz moment and blew up while handling dynamite. And I and everyone else started asking. WHAT IN THE HECK DOES THIS MEAN??
Ok yes it does mean that she’s dead, that is obvious, but there was so much more promise and expectation to the character. She is the person who is supposed to know what to do; she is the person who is supposed to protect the losties. And I have a really hard time believing that Jacob would let the woman he thought of as his daughter just die like that. Several weeks ago I was spoiled/foiled to the fact that Jacob would be Illanas father, but apparently that was changed, to he was the closest thing she had to a father. And I keep wondering if this character is so important, then why die like that? Is it as Ben said, the island was done with her? I would hate to think that that was it. I’m very conflicted on her death, it was entirely unexpected and unnecessary, it didn’t really have emotional resonance, and she didn’t get to do what she was supposed to do. Will she come back as a ghost to Hurley and guide him that way? Or will she be a ghost that is not trapped on this island.
Which leads me into the whole whispers reveal. According to Michael…and finally realize by Hurley, (which how as a ghost talking dude has he not realized this sooner) the whispers are of ghosts who are stuck on this island and who can’t move on. It surprised me that this was not presented to us as a major reveal. After all it has been something people have been having questions on since season one, instead I like how they just slipped it in there, not everything has to be a major reveal.
However I question why do they whisper in the first place? Are they trying to warn people or give them messages? I did not have the time this week to go back into the transcripts, but it would be interesting to do so. After all as Hurley said, “dead people are more reliable then alive people.”
Another interesting point in this story was that Hurley lied, Hurley Never Lies!! But he does this time to make people listen to him (I had a half page of notes on this on whether Jacob was really there until Hurley admitted he was lying) darn you Hurley. Then he went and blew up the Black Rock, definitely and unexpected move. And then decides that they need to go talk to anti Locke, I love take charge Hurley, but I’m really uncertain as to if this is the right move for the group as the better. However it has been said that once MIB makes a promise he can’t go back on it, and he did promise Hurley that he wouldn’t hut anyone.
A quick note on the alt universe story for Hurley, one of the best lines of this season was said in it by Hurley “Bizarro alternate Universe.” I love how the writers use Hurley as a character that really channels the fans and the Lost community.
I LOVED how Desmond pushed Hurley towards Libby to get him to remember and how her kiss triggered his flash of the island. His plan is to slightly push people in the right direction to seeing the other side - genius because he's not entirely interfering with their lives, but just giving slight suggestions and pushes - very Jacob like. But then he later does something very un Jacob like. HE RUNS OVER ALT. UNIVERSE LOCKE. One of the few people I cared about in the alternate universe, because A. he’s Locke, and B. he’s finally happy and doing something he’s good at. But why does Desmond want to run over Locke? It keeps running in my brain that perhaps he saw something in his flashes of anti Locke and thinks that this Locke may be one in the same. Or he believes by destroying Locke he will destroy the body of anti-Locke, but I’m really unsure as to how he would know this.
Staying on the Desmond track he looked way to complacent strapped to that tree, doesn’t know who anti Locke is and touched anti Locke!! Something is way more up with him then just accepting his fate. There has to be more then this then there is. Or am I over thinking it?
We see the strange looking boy again, and he does look a bit different, but think on this we now know that Desmond, Sawyer, and anti Locke can all see him? Does this mean something? We know Richard can’t see him. What enables a person to see him? It can’t be a candidate issue since Desmond is not a candidate nor has ever been one that we know of.
Last but not least Desmond down a Well. He can not be dead!! All I know about next weeks preview was the creepy Willy Wonka music; I was too busy writing notes. All I can say is if he is dead that would be a really bad end to his character and his story line, there is still too much work for him to do, and too many things for him to do, I can not imagine that the island is done with him.
A great solid episode, interesting....was good, but became great at the end.
The current timelines story was riveting, intriguing and ghostly…ok I threw that one in. Ghost Michael shows up on the island as Hurley is talking to Libby’s grave and says "I'm here to stop you from getting everyone killed" - Michael - darn you ABC for spoiling him in last weeks promo.
However what was not spoiled for me or I think anyone else was Illana’s end, where she got her artz moment and blew up while handling dynamite. And I and everyone else started asking. WHAT IN THE HECK DOES THIS MEAN??
Ok yes it does mean that she’s dead, that is obvious, but there was so much more promise and expectation to the character. She is the person who is supposed to know what to do; she is the person who is supposed to protect the losties. And I have a really hard time believing that Jacob would let the woman he thought of as his daughter just die like that. Several weeks ago I was spoiled/foiled to the fact that Jacob would be Illanas father, but apparently that was changed, to he was the closest thing she had to a father. And I keep wondering if this character is so important, then why die like that? Is it as Ben said, the island was done with her? I would hate to think that that was it. I’m very conflicted on her death, it was entirely unexpected and unnecessary, it didn’t really have emotional resonance, and she didn’t get to do what she was supposed to do. Will she come back as a ghost to Hurley and guide him that way? Or will she be a ghost that is not trapped on this island.
Which leads me into the whole whispers reveal. According to Michael…and finally realize by Hurley, (which how as a ghost talking dude has he not realized this sooner) the whispers are of ghosts who are stuck on this island and who can’t move on. It surprised me that this was not presented to us as a major reveal. After all it has been something people have been having questions on since season one, instead I like how they just slipped it in there, not everything has to be a major reveal.
However I question why do they whisper in the first place? Are they trying to warn people or give them messages? I did not have the time this week to go back into the transcripts, but it would be interesting to do so. After all as Hurley said, “dead people are more reliable then alive people.”
Another interesting point in this story was that Hurley lied, Hurley Never Lies!! But he does this time to make people listen to him (I had a half page of notes on this on whether Jacob was really there until Hurley admitted he was lying) darn you Hurley. Then he went and blew up the Black Rock, definitely and unexpected move. And then decides that they need to go talk to anti Locke, I love take charge Hurley, but I’m really uncertain as to if this is the right move for the group as the better. However it has been said that once MIB makes a promise he can’t go back on it, and he did promise Hurley that he wouldn’t hut anyone.
A quick note on the alt universe story for Hurley, one of the best lines of this season was said in it by Hurley “Bizarro alternate Universe.” I love how the writers use Hurley as a character that really channels the fans and the Lost community.
I LOVED how Desmond pushed Hurley towards Libby to get him to remember and how her kiss triggered his flash of the island. His plan is to slightly push people in the right direction to seeing the other side - genius because he's not entirely interfering with their lives, but just giving slight suggestions and pushes - very Jacob like. But then he later does something very un Jacob like. HE RUNS OVER ALT. UNIVERSE LOCKE. One of the few people I cared about in the alternate universe, because A. he’s Locke, and B. he’s finally happy and doing something he’s good at. But why does Desmond want to run over Locke? It keeps running in my brain that perhaps he saw something in his flashes of anti Locke and thinks that this Locke may be one in the same. Or he believes by destroying Locke he will destroy the body of anti-Locke, but I’m really unsure as to how he would know this.
Staying on the Desmond track he looked way to complacent strapped to that tree, doesn’t know who anti Locke is and touched anti Locke!! Something is way more up with him then just accepting his fate. There has to be more then this then there is. Or am I over thinking it?
We see the strange looking boy again, and he does look a bit different, but think on this we now know that Desmond, Sawyer, and anti Locke can all see him? Does this mean something? We know Richard can’t see him. What enables a person to see him? It can’t be a candidate issue since Desmond is not a candidate nor has ever been one that we know of.
Last but not least Desmond down a Well. He can not be dead!! All I know about next weeks preview was the creepy Willy Wonka music; I was too busy writing notes. All I can say is if he is dead that would be a really bad end to his character and his story line, there is still too much work for him to do, and too many things for him to do, I can not imagine that the island is done with him.
A great solid episode, interesting....was good, but became great at the end.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Lost: Happily Ever After....or not???
Another fantastic episode of Lost this week as we delve into Happily Ever After, Desmond episodes are always so interesting and exciting. He has always been a favorite character of mine and the rest of the fan base, and what is the first thing that happens to him when he comes back, he’s put in a box with two electromagnetic coils. I keep wondering if that thing has a name.
We soon find out that it puts his consciousness into the alt reality. Or does it? He doesn’t seem to be aware right away of what’s going on or of the real time line. We soon learn he is not married to Penny or anyone else, and works for Widmore. Not only does he work for him, he actually likes him, and Widmore likes him back!!! Of all the alternate reality’s that we have seen so far, this is the one that I would say is the most complete opposite of how the person is in the real time line.
But the one thing that is still getting to me after all this time really popped up with this episode. THE TIME LINE!!!
If the incident sunk the island in 1977 as we have been led to believe this whole time then how in the world did Widmore get off that Island, same with Eloise, and Daniel since she was pregnant with him at the time. They should not be alive if the island just sunk! Of course we don’t know really if it took some time to sink of if it just sunk.
What it looked like to me was that when the bomb went off near the electromagnetic energy, the island flashed to the bottom of the ocean. After all what we saw in the premiere was an island that looked a lot like it did when it was above ground, just a little wetter.
In fact over the course of the season we have seen a lot of people that have been off island alive in the real world when they should have been nice and dead on the island because of the incident if it happened in a flash like I am supposing, this list also includes Ethan Goodspeed/Rom and Benjamin Linus.
I have a few theories as to why this is occurring, and they had better answer this question I have on the time line.
1. the island did not immediately sink when the bomb went off bet went on a slow sinking kind of like the titanic, but that doesn’t explain how we saw everything at the bottom of the ocean in near perfect condition.
2. There is a mention on the swan hatch door of another incident or event in 1985. it doesn’t say what happened but perhaps because a new incident happened in 1977, something different and worse happened in 1985 to sink the island. Far off but its something.
3. In the orientation video for the swan Candle seemed to indicate that the incident occurred shortly after the Swan station began operations, but as we saw it happened during the construction process. However it is worth noting as Lostpedia does that “Pierre Chang alluded to (that the station was "originally" a laboratory used for research), the Swan's protocol was established during the construction of the Swan itself due to the workers drilling into the magnetic energy field. This would seem to suggest that there wasn't even a brief period of time that the Swan was used for its original research purpose. However, it's not clear yet whether or not this is the same mysterious Incident that Chang spoke of.”
So what actually happened? Did changing the time of the incident affect the timeline of the island? Because it happened during construction things were worse off?? That still doesn’t explain how people who should have been killed in the explosion and or sinking of the island are still alive. Any ideas??
Another problem Charlie’s explanation of his vision that he saw in the plane while chocking. He says he saw Kate two rows in front of him before hand, but Kate is at no time that close to him, picky I know, but still. CONTINUTIY ERROR.
I loved that it was Charlie’s hand that triggered Desmond’s flash of the island and finally discovering what was going on. It made me believe the more flashes he got that this time line does matter. Desmond now has a plan, and in this reality he has the resources to go through with the plan. I now see him going to ever 815er and trying to convince them that this is not where they all belong. I’m not sure what else he can do, but perhaps now that his two selves seem to be linked he will slowly discover what he needs to do.
It helps that he ran into a lot of people in his alt reality, and the Eloise interaction was the most interesting, she says the iconic words, “What ever happened, happened” of course this is in regards to him not getting drive shaft, but still. Then she goes all time cop mode, and it makes me wonder does she have the same position that she did in the original reality? How did she get that position in the first place? Is it a gift that Jacob gave her? That Widmore is the leader and she is the time cop? Or what ever we want to call it.
I love that Daniel is a musician in this reality, in some ways it fulfills his promise that he can do both math and music at the same time. we get his notebook once again, and his explanation of the flashes, plus the actual words on paper “Imaginary time” which is what I firmly believe we are dealing with now.
And now a “brief” definition of Imaginary Time from Wikipedia, there is no dictionary definition
In quantum mechanics
Imaginary time is obtained from real time via a Wick rotation by in the complex plane: . It can be shown that at finite temperature T, the Green's functions are periodic in imaginary time with a period of . Therefore their Fourier transforms contain only a discrete set of frequencies called Matsubara frequencies. Another way to see the connection between statistical mechanics and quantum field is to consider the transition amplitude between an initial state I and a final state F. H is the Hamiltonian of the system. If we compare this with the partition function we see that to get the partition function from the transition amplitudes we can replace , set F = I = n and sum over n. This way we don't have to do twice the work by evaluating both the statistical properties and the transition amplitudes. Finally by using a Wick rotation one can show that the Euclidean quantum field theoryin (D + 1)-dimensional spacetime is nothing but quantum statistical mechanics in D-dimensional space.
[edit]In cosmology
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds? Stephen Hawking
Imaginary time is also used in cosmology. It is used to describe models of the universe in physical cosmology. Stephen Hawkingpopularized the concept of imaginary time in his book A Brief History of Time.
The relationship of real and imaginary time can be visualised as perpendicular axes of direction.
Imaginary time is difficult to visualize. If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line as the imaginary numbers run perpendicular to the real numbers in thecomplex plane. However, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense that it is unreal or made-up — it simply runs in a direction different from the type of time we experience. In essence, imaginary time is a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space: you can move forward and backward along imaginary time, just like you can move right and left in space.
The concept is useful in cosmology because it can help smooth out gravitational singularities in models of the universe (see Hartle-Hawking state). Singularities pose a problem for physicists because these are areas where known physical laws do not apply. The Big Bang, for example, appears as a singularity in "regular time." But when visualized with imaginary time, the singularity is removed and the Big Bang functions like any other point in spacetime.
Does anyone understand that? The most important part is this: Imaginary time is difficult to visualize. If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line as the imaginary numbers run perpendicular to the real numbers in thecomplex plane. However, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense that it is unreal or made-up — it simply runs in a direction different from the type of time we experience. In essence, imaginary time is a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space: you can move forward and backward along imaginary time, just like you can move right and left in space.
The science lesson is now over, now on to the heart strings part of this episode. PENNY!!!! I was so thankful they brought her back, hey they brought dominic back to lost from Flash Forward, thy could by well bring Sonya Wagner back as well…and they did. Thank you ABC for that, now bring back Pushing Daisies as well. It wasn’t as emotional of a scene as the one in the constant, but it was as fulfilling, because it brought everything together and brought us back to the stadium, the same place where Desmond met Jack. It also seemed to make the final connections between the alt realtiy and the real time line. After he touched Penny’s hand he was flung back to the real time line, and he knew everything and trusted Widmore for the first time in his life. He even took his hand to get up. Yes, Nancy Drew, your hands popped again, but for me they are a symbol of trusting someone to touch them, that is all.
At the very end of the episode however I have a problem. Something is very very wrong with Desmond. He agrees to go with Sayid, willingly. When Desmond should know not to trust him? Why does he do that? In an interview Henry Ian Cusiak says that he believes Desmond went with him, because Desmond has a purpose now, and believes that whatever he does will lead him to that. I’m not so sure on that, it just seems that Desmond is WAY too trusting at the end of this episode, and something just makes me feel that him going with Sayid is a very bad thing.
Next episode: Everyone Loves Hugo!! This should be interesting
We soon find out that it puts his consciousness into the alt reality. Or does it? He doesn’t seem to be aware right away of what’s going on or of the real time line. We soon learn he is not married to Penny or anyone else, and works for Widmore. Not only does he work for him, he actually likes him, and Widmore likes him back!!! Of all the alternate reality’s that we have seen so far, this is the one that I would say is the most complete opposite of how the person is in the real time line.
But the one thing that is still getting to me after all this time really popped up with this episode. THE TIME LINE!!!
If the incident sunk the island in 1977 as we have been led to believe this whole time then how in the world did Widmore get off that Island, same with Eloise, and Daniel since she was pregnant with him at the time. They should not be alive if the island just sunk! Of course we don’t know really if it took some time to sink of if it just sunk.
What it looked like to me was that when the bomb went off near the electromagnetic energy, the island flashed to the bottom of the ocean. After all what we saw in the premiere was an island that looked a lot like it did when it was above ground, just a little wetter.
In fact over the course of the season we have seen a lot of people that have been off island alive in the real world when they should have been nice and dead on the island because of the incident if it happened in a flash like I am supposing, this list also includes Ethan Goodspeed/Rom and Benjamin Linus.
I have a few theories as to why this is occurring, and they had better answer this question I have on the time line.
1. the island did not immediately sink when the bomb went off bet went on a slow sinking kind of like the titanic, but that doesn’t explain how we saw everything at the bottom of the ocean in near perfect condition.
2. There is a mention on the swan hatch door of another incident or event in 1985. it doesn’t say what happened but perhaps because a new incident happened in 1977, something different and worse happened in 1985 to sink the island. Far off but its something.
3. In the orientation video for the swan Candle seemed to indicate that the incident occurred shortly after the Swan station began operations, but as we saw it happened during the construction process. However it is worth noting as Lostpedia does that “Pierre Chang alluded to (that the station was "originally" a laboratory used for research), the Swan's protocol was established during the construction of the Swan itself due to the workers drilling into the magnetic energy field. This would seem to suggest that there wasn't even a brief period of time that the Swan was used for its original research purpose. However, it's not clear yet whether or not this is the same mysterious Incident that Chang spoke of.”
So what actually happened? Did changing the time of the incident affect the timeline of the island? Because it happened during construction things were worse off?? That still doesn’t explain how people who should have been killed in the explosion and or sinking of the island are still alive. Any ideas??
Another problem Charlie’s explanation of his vision that he saw in the plane while chocking. He says he saw Kate two rows in front of him before hand, but Kate is at no time that close to him, picky I know, but still. CONTINUTIY ERROR.
I loved that it was Charlie’s hand that triggered Desmond’s flash of the island and finally discovering what was going on. It made me believe the more flashes he got that this time line does matter. Desmond now has a plan, and in this reality he has the resources to go through with the plan. I now see him going to ever 815er and trying to convince them that this is not where they all belong. I’m not sure what else he can do, but perhaps now that his two selves seem to be linked he will slowly discover what he needs to do.
It helps that he ran into a lot of people in his alt reality, and the Eloise interaction was the most interesting, she says the iconic words, “What ever happened, happened” of course this is in regards to him not getting drive shaft, but still. Then she goes all time cop mode, and it makes me wonder does she have the same position that she did in the original reality? How did she get that position in the first place? Is it a gift that Jacob gave her? That Widmore is the leader and she is the time cop? Or what ever we want to call it.
I love that Daniel is a musician in this reality, in some ways it fulfills his promise that he can do both math and music at the same time. we get his notebook once again, and his explanation of the flashes, plus the actual words on paper “Imaginary time” which is what I firmly believe we are dealing with now.
And now a “brief” definition of Imaginary Time from Wikipedia, there is no dictionary definition
In quantum mechanics
Imaginary time is obtained from real time via a Wick rotation by in the complex plane: . It can be shown that at finite temperature T, the Green's functions are periodic in imaginary time with a period of . Therefore their Fourier transforms contain only a discrete set of frequencies called Matsubara frequencies. Another way to see the connection between statistical mechanics and quantum field is to consider the transition amplitude between an initial state I and a final state F. H is the Hamiltonian of the system. If we compare this with the partition function we see that to get the partition function from the transition amplitudes we can replace , set F = I = n and sum over n. This way we don't have to do twice the work by evaluating both the statistical properties and the transition amplitudes. Finally by using a Wick rotation one can show that the Euclidean quantum field theoryin (D + 1)-dimensional spacetime is nothing but quantum statistical mechanics in D-dimensional space.
[edit]In cosmology
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds? Stephen Hawking
Imaginary time is also used in cosmology. It is used to describe models of the universe in physical cosmology. Stephen Hawkingpopularized the concept of imaginary time in his book A Brief History of Time.
The relationship of real and imaginary time can be visualised as perpendicular axes of direction.
Imaginary time is difficult to visualize. If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line as the imaginary numbers run perpendicular to the real numbers in thecomplex plane. However, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense that it is unreal or made-up — it simply runs in a direction different from the type of time we experience. In essence, imaginary time is a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space: you can move forward and backward along imaginary time, just like you can move right and left in space.
The concept is useful in cosmology because it can help smooth out gravitational singularities in models of the universe (see Hartle-Hawking state). Singularities pose a problem for physicists because these are areas where known physical laws do not apply. The Big Bang, for example, appears as a singularity in "regular time." But when visualized with imaginary time, the singularity is removed and the Big Bang functions like any other point in spacetime.
Does anyone understand that? The most important part is this: Imaginary time is difficult to visualize. If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line as the imaginary numbers run perpendicular to the real numbers in thecomplex plane. However, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense that it is unreal or made-up — it simply runs in a direction different from the type of time we experience. In essence, imaginary time is a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space: you can move forward and backward along imaginary time, just like you can move right and left in space.
The science lesson is now over, now on to the heart strings part of this episode. PENNY!!!! I was so thankful they brought her back, hey they brought dominic back to lost from Flash Forward, thy could by well bring Sonya Wagner back as well…and they did. Thank you ABC for that, now bring back Pushing Daisies as well. It wasn’t as emotional of a scene as the one in the constant, but it was as fulfilling, because it brought everything together and brought us back to the stadium, the same place where Desmond met Jack. It also seemed to make the final connections between the alt realtiy and the real time line. After he touched Penny’s hand he was flung back to the real time line, and he knew everything and trusted Widmore for the first time in his life. He even took his hand to get up. Yes, Nancy Drew, your hands popped again, but for me they are a symbol of trusting someone to touch them, that is all.
At the very end of the episode however I have a problem. Something is very very wrong with Desmond. He agrees to go with Sayid, willingly. When Desmond should know not to trust him? Why does he do that? In an interview Henry Ian Cusiak says that he believes Desmond went with him, because Desmond has a purpose now, and believes that whatever he does will lead him to that. I’m not so sure on that, it just seems that Desmond is WAY too trusting at the end of this episode, and something just makes me feel that him going with Sayid is a very bad thing.
Next episode: Everyone Loves Hugo!! This should be interesting
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Episode 10: The Package
Well this posting is quite late, ive been sick the past few days, so better late then never.
I am not sure what to think of this episode it gave us an interesting side to Sun and Jin’s love story. In the alt time line they are not married, but Sun is pregnant, so is the baby Ji Yeon?
One big problem I had with this episode was the garden on the island, it was in a different location from where its always been, why couldn’t they just have used the previous location.
People on this island really do need to watch where they are going when they run on this isand so they don’t run into a tree or something.
We got another Mirror in this episode, but only Sun sees her self in a mirror and seems to pause a moment. However Jin was in the bathroom where there was a mirror but we did not see if he had the same sort of experience as sun.
One of the most interesting points of this episode was that Widmore took Jin not because he was a possible candidate but because he had been no the island in the 70’s, and had been mapping the island. I thought this was a nice touch and was a surprising one.
The Keamy/Jin scene puzzled me because for the longest time I thought keamy said “I can't let you know what’s going to happen on the island?" The actual line confirmed by Jorge Garcia is “I can’t let you know whats going to happen to you.” There must have been some mumbling in there.
We once again get a reference to hands, sun takes Jacks hand but not Lockes, I am more convinced that this means something but I don’t know what.
The Package is Desmond and he is back!!! Awesome and interesting. Also there is the thought that it could be more then desmond, what if Penny and little Charlie are there too? Or JiYeon?
This episode was entertaining but no where near as good as last weeks episode, as well it seemed to drag in the first half hour but the 2nd half hour was paced a lot better.
I am not sure what to think of this episode it gave us an interesting side to Sun and Jin’s love story. In the alt time line they are not married, but Sun is pregnant, so is the baby Ji Yeon?
One big problem I had with this episode was the garden on the island, it was in a different location from where its always been, why couldn’t they just have used the previous location.
People on this island really do need to watch where they are going when they run on this isand so they don’t run into a tree or something.
We got another Mirror in this episode, but only Sun sees her self in a mirror and seems to pause a moment. However Jin was in the bathroom where there was a mirror but we did not see if he had the same sort of experience as sun.
One of the most interesting points of this episode was that Widmore took Jin not because he was a possible candidate but because he had been no the island in the 70’s, and had been mapping the island. I thought this was a nice touch and was a surprising one.
The Keamy/Jin scene puzzled me because for the longest time I thought keamy said “I can't let you know what’s going to happen on the island?" The actual line confirmed by Jorge Garcia is “I can’t let you know whats going to happen to you.” There must have been some mumbling in there.
We once again get a reference to hands, sun takes Jacks hand but not Lockes, I am more convinced that this means something but I don’t know what.
The Package is Desmond and he is back!!! Awesome and interesting. Also there is the thought that it could be more then desmond, what if Penny and little Charlie are there too? Or JiYeon?
This episode was entertaining but no where near as good as last weeks episode, as well it seemed to drag in the first half hour but the 2nd half hour was paced a lot better.
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