So man has always had a quest to understand the universe. Every culture on the planet has wrapped its mythology around the mysteries of the universe, the stars, the sun and the movement in the sky.
We have advanced far enough to begin to experiment about the universe.
The Large Hadron Collider slams beams of subatomic particles — traveling at more than 99.999999% the speed of light — together in the most energetic head-on hits you can imagine.
The heaping piles of scientific data generated from these powerful mashups, and seen by giant detectors like the one above, is enough to fill 100,000 dual-layer, single-sided DVDs each year. And this data is fueling countless science projects across the globe conducted by more than 10,000 researchers, engineers, and students.
These projects probe and test the fundamental laws of physics that govern our understanding of the universe.
What are the basic building blocks of space and time? Does the universe expand? Is gravity in deep space? What is on the other side of a black hole? Why do we exist when our other solar system planets have no life?
By smashing atoms together to see what happens is trying to re-create our own birthright. Are we part of a large chain reaction of events billions of years ago from the explosion-implosion of matter and energy?
Or our we insignificant lab rats on some other intelligent life form's desk?
Scientists and writers are fascinating with the probabilities. They are searching for a way we can explore the universe like in Star Trek or Star Wars. Is there elements (such as anti-matter) that can make us travel through space-time faster than the speed of light (breaking a rule of known physics)?
And is this bridge between our known scientific world and the cultural-spiritual mythos of a second life in the heavens?
LOST could be described as an experiment on the universe - - - trying to unlock the gateway between life and death, Earth and Heaven, life and the afterlife. The Island is like the LHC, having its own unique properties which defied conventional physics. What would happen if you put human beings into a large particle accelerator device? Time would move differently, or even jump decades at a time? Would the light "bend" differently through the trees? Would you be able to teleport matter? Could you reach heaven before you died?
Those are the types questions LOST could have raised in the finale.
