VALENZETTI EQUATION

The Valenzetti equation is a mathematical representation of core environmental and human factors that will cause the world to end (in 2015 FYI). Which is exactly what the Island and the Oceanic 6 are.

The entire point of the D.H.A.R.M.A Initiative is to change these numeric variables (4 8 15 16 23 42) and forstall the end of the human race and save the world. D.H.A.R.M.A. does it the way Juliet, as a Man of Science, would, by essentially stripmining the Island and focusing on the hard sciences when the reverse is called for. As you touch the world, so the world touches you. It's not about man changing the island, it's about the Island changing man. This is me making the Man of Faith arguement and "it's never BEEN easy!"

The Others are the "good guys" because they exist to preserve the control environment (island) and the passangers of Flight 815 are the "bad people" who cause the end of man. The island serves as a purgatory to the human factors (healing them, prolonging life, giving them a second chance to be whoever they want to be on the island, preventing new births, using the monster to eliminate those who do not change) until they learn or change in their core, thus changing the numeric variables and saving the world. It is worth noteing that Boone died at the exact moment Aaron was born (a sacrifice the island demanded)

The flashbacks showed us how the passengers were led to Flight 815. The island's / fate influence is evident in the six degrees of seperation between all the passengers. For example, Christian Shepard led the leader of each group to the flight, Jack Shepard (duly elected) and Ana Lucia Cortez (Dictator).The plane itself is broken into two groups landing on seperate sides of the island having almost the exact opposite experience from each other. Middle Section had 43 survivors, Tail section had 22.

The flashforwards so far have shown the Oceanic 6 to be the exact opposite of the way they were when they boarded the plane. They are changed variables from their time on the island. Dead Charlie tells them they are needed to return, not to save the other plane crash survivors, but to complete the equation and save the world.

Middle Section / Oceanic 6:

4 = (Adam) Jack, the good Shepard that heals his flock is now a disconnected junkie that wants to die.

8 = (Eve + Child = Infinity) Kate, the fugitive woman guilty of patricide whose own selfishness has destroyed all those who loved her is now a dedicated mother happily confined to one state for 10 yrs and the custodian of the best hope for the future...the next Shepard...Aaron, born from the island.

15 16 = (Only consecutive numbers indicating a union) Sun & Jin, a married man and woman on the verge of ruin represented by their lack of power to conceive, have now truly fallen in love & trust and become one, which the island rewarded with another child of great possibility.

23 = (evil) Sayid, a good man looking for love forced into destructive actions by the situations he is placed in, never allowed to truly be happy as his lovers have ALL been murdered or released from him / by him, is now allowing himself to spirial further into the darkness to protect the island. He is the necessary evil that is required to do the dirty work.

42 = (answer to life, the univers, and everything) Hurley, the only sane man living in the mental hospital. He is the salt of the earth, the meek who shall inherit it, and so he hasn't changed at all. He is good. He is the constant the other variables are affecting. He is however, cursed by these numbers to be part of the equation.

Tail Section (last 6 survivors to make it across the island to Jack's camp)

4 = Mr. Eko (Adam) Drug lord turned priest. Killed by the monster after confessing he did not repent his sins and so had not truly changed.

8 = Ana-Lucia (Eve + child = Infinity) - remember she lost her baby before the island and remained a miserable bitch the whole time until Michael killed her.

15 16 = Bernard & Rose (only consecutive numbers indicating a union) - This couple seperated to allow for a different variable to play out. Rose will never leave the island because of her cancer, thus eliminating them from the equation.

23 = Libby (evil) - I know it's a reach but we know the least about her (never had her own flashback, only appeared in Desmond's & Hurley's). Chick could be evil. Also killed by Michael.

42 = Cindy (answer to life, universe, and everything) - Stewardess taken by the Others which means she is a good person and has the most answers about the Others after living among them. Eliminated because she is simply a good person who has no curse and so no role in the equation.

And there is my bet, open to anyone who wants a piece of this action, that the Oceanic 6 leave the island 108 days after the crash.