LOST Analysis: Frozen Donkey Wheel

Im going to take some time to analyze the science behind the frozen wheel that has been so prominent in the last season and a half of lost.

FACTS
The wheel was first referenced (at the time ominously) towards the end of season 4. Jacob, via Christian Shepard was told to "Move the island" which was a reference to turning the wheel.

Upon hearing the news, Ben Linus took it upon himself to turn the wheel. By doing so, light was emitted from behind the wheel, and the island was moved to a different place in time and space, and along with it, Ben had also been removed from the island.
NOTE: Ben warned Locke that turning the wheel was a "last resort" and that whoever did so could not return to the island. Whether this is true or not is unknown.

During its second physical appearance, we find out that the reason the island is shifting erratically through time and space is due to the fact that the wheel is off its axis. We see Locke look at the wheel and it is trying unsuccessfully rotate as light is shooting from behind it.

THEORY
Based on what we've seen and heard about the wheel may lead one to believe that the wheel is the source of time on the island.

Based on logic, when the wheel IS moving, time apparently moves in proper time. This is the case due to the fact that the wheel is trying to move, but when it is stuck, time behaves erratically. At one point, Richard Alpert even explains to Locke that the island moves like a record, and it is skipping back and fourth in one spot, and at the time it was spinning in normal time. The depth, or further acknowledgment of this analogy is somewhat ominous and unknown.

Now lets flash back to the first time we've seen the wheel. It was NOT moving, and based on the previous paragraph we've decided that when the wheel IS MOVING, time moves as it should be (past moving to present and future). So why was it not moving, and what did it mean that it wasn't moving?

MY OVERARCHING THEORY!!!
So here's where my theory gets interesting. In the first episode of season 5, and hinted in the last episodes of season 4, the wheel is surrounded, or within rocks that have extremely high magnetic activity.

Go back to season 2/3 when the swan station (station where they had to enter the buttons and numbers), there was an extremely high activity of magnetism their as well.

My theory suggests that the Dharma Initiative was using the stations to magnetically rotate the wheel itself, and cause time to move on its own.

My theory is plausible due to the fact that any time the button was not pushed properly, there was a "shutdown" or an event which had strange ramifications. At one point, it was revealed that the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 was due to the fact that the button was not pushed, causing a "shutdown" or the wheel to stop turning.

When the station was ultimately destroyed, the same light that happens anytime time itself ships occurred. This leads me to believe that time itself stopped on the island, allowing it to be visible to the outside world, and located.

This idea is very much theory, but based on the logic behind the wheel in which we've seen, can be determined as a valid argument.

The wheel's properties are just one of the BIG pieces of the lost puzzle, and in no way am I concluding that this is the big answer to all of the questions, or the final piece to the puzzle, but it can be determined as an answer to a lot of questions.

What's next for Lost?
I can't say.
However, I think the time issue has an answer.
The remaining big question is why do the Oceanic 6 have to get back to the island, and what place to they hold in idea that the island has people that are supposed to be there?

Perhaps the island has called our heroes to the island as an aid to protect it.

I dunno...
stay tuned and keep watching!

If anyone has anything else they would like me to analyze, let me know and id be happy to give it a shot. I try to base all of my theories off of research and logic from the show, and I urge you to do the same!!!