So Sayid gets off the island. So does Ben. Sayid is playing hitman for Ben. That’s all interesting and stuff - but the meat of last week’s Lost “The Economist” is how the episode addresses the time shift directly. Dan had the freighter fire a rocket at the island. The rocket contained a clock. Never minding the insane velocity in which the rocket intiatly traveled (the have been posts on other sites that determined that the rocket was going way too fast by seconds per kilometer). But the clock on the rocket had arrived thirty-one minutes after it was supposed to arrive. I am going to deduce that the rocket did not enter the proper coordinates/bearings that was necessary to enter the island. Think of the island as a clock. If you approach the island at, say, 12 o’clock, you’ll enter the proper time. But if you enter it at 1 o’clock, you’ll be arrive at the island a few minutes after you should be there. If you enter the island at 11 o’clock - you’ll arrive at the island before you should arrive. That’s why it’s so hard to find the island - or the inhabitants of the island - you must arrive at the proper bearing or you’ll be thrown so far back into the island or so far forward, that nobody would seem to exist on the island anyway. This also might explain why Desmond couldn’t leave in his boat - he kept on sailing at a wrong bearing especially if he was following the sun - throwing him towards the island. I don’t know if that makes sense. Time is of the essence on the island, that much is clear. Maybe that’s how the wormholes can be formed - the island is in a constant state of timeless-ness - leaving the island, you can choose when in our timeline you can re-enter - that is, if you know where to exit. That would be cool - if it was to happen…

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