Lost Questions

Rereading Carson's review, I realized something for the first time. Has the island been moved spatially, or has it been moved through time? I just assumed it'd been moved spatially, and it's still possible it has because in the Orchid video, we're told the Dharma Initiative was experimenting with both time and space experiments, which are possible because of some unique properties on the island. But if it was moved through time, then that too might mean the Six will be able to find it (with Frank's help) depending on how far into the future it shifted. For instance, what if it shifted to the present, 3 years forward, which is when Jeremy Bentham tracks the Six down?

But I'm thinking this is probably not the case, because Locke apparently tells Jack that a lot of bad things has happened since they left, which would suggest time has passed. Carson has the same idea:

"There are hundred of things to think about before the series returns next year — January never seemed so far — but here are some of the basics kicking around my brain: I believe the island possibly relocated geographically as well as temporally. The island’s disappearance was because it shifted forward in time, as explained by Halliwax in the orientation video. Ben moved the island on day 100 after the crash, in late December 2004, and walks into the Tunisian hotel on October 24, 2005, so it’s reasonable to assume that the island also “jumped” 10 months or so into the future. But when Ben visits/-ed Widmore at the end of “The Shape of Things to Come,” each man swears to destroy what the other holds dear: Ben says he’ll kill Penny as vengeance for Alex’s death, while Widmore vows to reclaim the island. But Ben replies, “You’ll never find it.” Since Widmore had already found the island and sent the Kahana there, it seems reasonable to assume that he won’t just check the same location and find it all over again once it “reappears” after jumping to the future. So he’s got to begin the search again, which means the island moved to another spot on the planet as well as another time. Also, because the relocation took the main island and the smaller one, there’s a good chance that Daniel and the raft went, too, if only because it’d be a shame to kill off Jeremy Davies. Additionally, though the ship exploded, we didn’t see Jin’s body get blown away, and though he probably bought it, until the show ends, there will always be a part of that hopes he somehow will be reunited with Sun. I mean, it’s “Lost”; even if you see the corpse, that doesn’t mean they won’t come back. But until next year, all I can do is wait, and watch, and wonder what will happen next."