#Sequence numbers meaning serial number

Toomey used the numbers to win a contest, and a string of bad luck followed. Naval personnel, Sam Toomey and Leonard Simms also heard the transmission. Thanks to the Island's unusual time flow, Ajira 316's cockpit picked up this signal in 2007, years after it had stopped transmitting, but while the broadcast continued in 1988, it reached the French Bésixdouze expedition, leading them to the island. The Initiative broadcast the numbers from a radio tower on the Island. (' Dead Is Dead') (' Man of Science, Man of Faith') When they finished the station, they used the numbers as required input for the station computer protocol.

#Sequence numbers meaning serial number

The sequence of numbers formed the serial number of a hatch for a station the Initiative built. The DHARMA Initiative, a scientific venture, conducted research to change one of these coefficients, extending the species' lifespan. This ' Valenzetti Equation' aimed to predict the end of humanity, and the numbers formed its coefficients. Though the Numbers, as Damon Lindelof put it, 'were around LONG before the early '60s,' mathematician Enzo Valenzetti used them in the 1960s in a mathematical equation. The numbers printed on the the Swan's Hatch. The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 corresponded with what turned out to be the final six candidates: (' The Substitute') (' Lighthouse') (' What They Died For')

The lighthouse's mirrors displayed a different candidate's life with each degree that its dial turned.

(' Across the Sea') (' Ab Aeterno') (' What They Died For')īefore drawing them, Jacob observed these candidates using a lighthouse. However, when it became clear that his brother planned to kill him, Jacob had a new reason to summon castaways to protect the Heart of the Island after his death and to kill the Man in Black. Jacob brought people to the Island in order to test them and prove his view right. During this time, the two engaged in a rivalry over the nature of humanity. Jacob and his brother, the Man in Black, lived on the Island for over two thousand years. 4.4 Miscellaneous real world occurrences.