Was Dharma right when they said it's negatively charged exotic matter? Was Mother right when she said that it was the Source of all life, death and rebirth?
What I don't understand is why it cannot be both? It is fiction after all. It is possible for something to be scientific and mystical at the same time. Look at Event Horizon for example. Essentially a movie about a ship capable of opening a wormhole to Hell. Science and mysticism in a heavily sci-fi movie.
The pockets of energy connected to the Source, to Dharma was negatively charged exotic matter. Which they used at the Orchid station to basically open controlled wormholes between two points in space\time. A more advanced and controlled version of what we later see that the frozen donkey wheel is capable of accomplishing.
So even when we get Mothers more mystical explanation of the Source as the source of all life, death and rebirth, the idea that it has scientific properties is maintained in that MiB's friends developed a rudimentary means of opening wormholes allowing for escape from the Island. Even if they didn't understand how it worked fully, they still used it to perform a function very similar to what Dharma used it for.
Now, none of this means that Mothers explanation has to be perfectly in line with Dharmas. It maybe exotic matter, but it's also apparently what allows life to exist. As she also suggests that it exists "within" every living thing, and if it goes out on the Island it goes out everywhere.
Further, I would suggest that similarly to Event Horizon opening a wormhole to Hell, the sideways experience in Lost actually takes place "within" the Source. As I talk about in my previous entry.
I personally have never suggested it's only one or the other. So I do not understand why so many people seem to make a point of allowing one and denying the other. It's perfectly possible for it to be both, especially within the Lost universe, which combines so many sci-fi and fantasy elements.
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