Essentially, the gal on the boat was getting a reading which told her that the rocket landed at its destination before her conversation with Daniel had even ended. He didn't see the rocket land until a long time afterwards, however, and its clock was faster than his by about a half hour. I'm not sure what this means for the show precisely, special relativity is a complicated subject and the show hasn't revealed much about how the island works yet, but it's obvious that time dilation is being strongly hinted at here. (The fact that people have to travel on and off the Island at a precise angle might also be a the result of some relativistic distortion.) How extreme time dilation and other effects could apply to an island that can be reached by air and sea from our earth seems rather silly to me, but perhaps the writers are smarter than I give them credit. I'm guessing it will be the typical, sci-fi-fudged version of physics. Perhaps in the end we'll find out that the Island intersects some sort of extremely weird gravitational phenomenon.
Essentially, the gal on the boat was getting a reading which told her that the rocket landed at its destination before her conversation with Daniel had even ended. He didn't see the rocket land until a long time afterwards, however, and its clock was faster than his by about a half hour. I'm not sure what this means for the show precisely, special relativity is a complicated subject and the show hasn't revealed much about how the island works yet, but it's obvious that time dilation is being strongly hinted at here. (The fact that people have to travel on and off the Island at a precise angle might also be a the result of some relativistic distortion.) How extreme time dilation and other effects could apply to an island that can be reached by air and sea from our earth seems rather silly to me, but perhaps the writers are smarter than I give them credit. I'm guessing it will be the typical, sci-fi-fudged version of physics. Perhaps in the end we'll find out that the Island intersects some sort of extremely weird gravitational phenomenon.