My new theory is that the island is moving at such a high rate that time on the island is perceived as slower than the rest of the world, which would explain the time difference between the island and the freighter (which we now know is called the Kahana). Here's a short explanation:
Time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast-moving vehicle to travel further into the future while aging very little, in that their great speed retards the rate of passage of on-board time. That is, the ship's clock (and according to relativity, any human traveling with it) shows less elapsed time than the clocks of observers on Earth. This is why a highly precise atomic clock flying in an experiment called NAVEX on STS-61A/Challenger in 1985 measured a slowdown of 0.000,000,000,295 seconds for each second of flight. The closer you reach light speed, the greater the time difference.
Desmond has already experienced this time dilation when he left the island in his sailboat on November 5th, sailed for 2 and a half weeks (according to him), and landed back on the island on November 25th, only two weeks later in island time.
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Except the boat calendar and the phone call to Penny showed that the boat, outside the boundries of the island, is also in 2004.
Yes, but the boat is 31 minutes faster than the island. It's caught in the island's orbit, but it's not moving at the same speed, so the time difference is less than Desmond experienced.
The focal point of this spacetime is the island, which is spinning the fastest with the slowest time. Everything else in it's orbit moves slower with a faster time. So, essentially, people on the opposite side of the globe would be the furthest off in time. And coincidentally, that would be Tunisia!
That doesn't explain Penny getting the scheduled phone call on Christmas Eve 2004
Sure it does. In Desmond's current timeline, he remembers telling Penny that he'd call her on that day, and so he did. That would be like if I told you today that I'm going to call you tomorrow at 4:23pm, and then tomorrow at 4:23pm, your phone rings.
Desmond remembers what was on his tape as he's recording over it, so he always has knowledge of his potential future because he's already lived it. Or at least, he knows the last future he lived. He can't ever know the new future he's created. Butterfly effect and all that.
No, I'm talking about there being no time dilation outside the island.
It is the same day on the boat that it is on the island. A few hours difference is all that is noted by Sayid.
Desmond makes the call to Penny on Dec 24 2004 from the boat and she receives the call on Dec 24 2004 in London.
WTF
It's actually not the same day on the boat as it is on the island. Desmond and Sayid perceive it to be day 94 on the freighter, they arrived the same day they left the island, but on the island it's day 96.
When Sayid talks to Jack, though, there's no time difference and no delay, and there's no time difference or delay when Desmond talks to Penny on the phone.
For some reason, sound isn't affected by the time dilation. I'll have to work on figuring that one out.
No, let me explain.
The evidence from the world inhabiting the normal flow of time, i.e. the boat's calendar and the phone call to Penny show it to be Dec 24th (Day 94) on the boat.
You are correct that it is 2dys later on the island, Dec 26th (Day 96).
But how can you leave the island on Dec 24th, being 2dys ahead of the normal flow of time and then arrive into the normal flow of time on the "same day", Dec 24th?
That doesn't jive.
Because they stayed on the correct bearing, the one Faraday gave them. Had they gone off course, who knows what day it would be when they finally got to the boat.
Also, I was watching a few key season 3 episodes and forgot that Locke was using Mr. Eko's Jesus Stick to find the Barracks, and what he gathered from the scrawlings was that they should stay on a bearing of 305˚, exactly as Faraday told Frank to do.
Ben told Michael to stay on a bearing of 325˚. I wonder how much of a time difference those 20˚ made.
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