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There doesn't have to be a compass paradox. The island could have caused Alpert to "lose" the compass prior to Locke showing up in the past, let's say in the 1940's. Locke shows up in the 1950's and gives Alpert the compass. A few years later Alpert shows it to young Locke and returns to the island. At this point Alpert could perhaps lose the compass again but find one of the two compass' on the island before Locke crashes on flight 815. This is the compass that he gives to Locke who eventually gives it to him in the 1950's. So the compass would never have had to come in contact with itself. No paradox! You might say that means two compasses existed on the island at the same time. True, but practically speaking when the Losties jump back in time they could be on the island with their previous selves. As long as they don't come in contact with each other there shouldn't be much of a problem. Now Alpert could have thought that Locke simply found the compass he lost in the 1940's so that could make Alpert not completely believe that Locke time travelled from the future. That could explain why he seemed somewhat dejected that Locke didn't choose the compass as a small child, as if that would have maybe confirmed the time travel theory. Yet the fact that Locke predicted his future birth should have been a good reason to convince Alpert about the time travel theory - unless Alpert would have thought even that was a planned plot by someone off the island and that old Locke was part of the plot by predicting his birth. All in all I could see Alpert being confused by time travel if it was not a core component of the island in the past. Quite possibly the "incident" initiated time travel problems and was caused by the Dharma project.

H bombs don't have any exceptionally strong magnetic field that I know of. And if it was buried anywhere it may have been buried on the other small island so it wouldn't be as likely to contaminate the main island. Which makes you wonder what the Others were making Sawyer and Kate help dig up on the small island. Maybe it was the H-bomb and Ben was thinking of using it to protect the island by blowing it up somewhere out at sea (like the freighter) or even off the island in the real world. Maybe to kill Widmore or to permanently block access to and from the island by blowing up the travel conduit or something.

It was interesting to see that the island was preventing Locke from being killed in the camp (by Widmore?) when the rifle trigger simply clicked the trigger. So presumably the island has power in the past and is possibly also the reason why the H bomb cracked and didn't explode. The island sabotaged it. I kind of doubt whatever was leaking from the bomb would be radioactive. The bomb core should be well contained in the center of the bomb, but hey, I'm no nuclear bomb expert.

And this all makes me think about the purple flash in the sky. Is it possible that the H-bomb is destined to explode sometime in the far future? The flash could actually be a manifestation of the flash of the H bomb going off in the future, interacting with the island's exotic strange matter in the future, and setting off ripples of time jumping far into the past. Maybe flight 815 just happened to bump into one of these ripples and initiate this whole chain of events they've shown in the series. Is it possible that this major destruction of the world thing everyone is trying to avoid might actually be the detonation of the H bomb on the island? It could potentially blow up the entire planet if it busts up that unlimited stored energy under the island. So this might be what everyone is actually trying to avoid happening in the future. Maybe it's predestined to happen. Or maybe Desmond or another one of our characters is the agent that is able to pre-empt destiny and keep the H bomb from blowing up.

I still don't see any good explanation for the Swan hatch and pushing the button. I don't think it's related to the H bomb. I still think it's more likely that its related to the incident and some goomer drilling or dyno-miting into the wheel chamber. And why the wheel chamber is where it is, and whether it is there from the past or the future who knows?

One more thing about the island is that it seems as though it was also hidden from plain sight in the 1950's, at least after the H bomb arrived. Otherwise the US would have sent a zillion soldiers to the island to retrieve the missing H bomb if it were possible. How the military originally found the island is yet another question we don't have an answer to. Maybe the island was just a normal island but Alpert and Jacob did something to camoflauge the island after they killed off the soldeirs that brought the bomb.

Confusing...

Megkris72 wrote:

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Now more than ever I am convinced the writers have a clear plan, and are leading us to the answers we are so desperate for. I also believe that any information they give us has some bearing on these answers. This is why I am sure that the bomb has something to do with the history of the island. I may account for the sickness experienced by Rousseau's group and the others, such as radiation poisioning, which has symptoms of fever, headache, dizziness, disorientation, bloody vomitting, and nose bleeds..... sounds familiar. It also is used in some cancer treatments, which could explain Rose's cancer disappearing....