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  • One of Lost's biggest mysteries were the numbers: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. 1 / 7

    Lost Pilot Plane Crash

  • This was explained as a list of Jacob's final six candidates. 2 / 7

  • However, The Lost Experience offers a stronger explanation: the Valenzetti Equation. 3 / 7

    Lost Jacob's Tapestry vertical

  • The equation predicts the apocalypse and the numbers were its core values. 4 / 7

  • DHARMA were charged with altering the equation through science. 5 / 7

  • Perhaps, however, the equation's values were actually Jacob's candidates. 6 / 7

    MARK PELLEGRINO as Jacob in Lost vertical

  • And the Man in Black's escape was the end of the world Valenzetti predicted. 7 / 7

    Lost Finale The End Vertical TLDR