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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Faraday wanted to play piano but his mother didn't let him, she made him study physics and work hard with science. However in the AR he was a pianist, he followed his passion and not the gift his mother forced on him. Faraday's physics calculations were what caused the Losties to set off the nuclear bomb creating the AR.
Faraday's mother killed him in the Lost reality. She didn't want Desmond to get all the Losties together as she didn't want to leave her son. In the AR she got to cherish her son and nurture his musical gift and passion. She wanted that to last, to spend time with her son.
As for Widmore's getting back to the island, obviously if you left you could come back. Widmore found the island, but changed the reasoning for being there (if you accept his explanation to Ben) thus it was no longer Ben vs Widmore, but MiB vs Jacob and not being the leaders I'd assume since they were no longer fighting each other they could kill each other.
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This isn't my view on why Faraday remained behind in "sideways purgatory."
The H-bomb didn't create the "AR." There is no AR. There is only a spiritual waiting room, of sorts. It was created by the characters on the island, their souls, their memories, and their thoughts. All the H-bomb did was send the characters ahead in time and create the "incident" that required the button to be pushed. The writers wanted us to "think" there was an AR during the season until the final reveal of the truth of it.
My thoughts on Faraday not being able to "move on," as it were, is that he just wasn't ready. Just like Ben not going inside the Church with the others because he had to deal with what he did to Goodwin, etc., Faraday wasn't ready to go into the light. He still had things to deal with that he hadn't come to terms with yet. I would think it would have to do with his former girlfriend's death during his time-travel experiments, and Charlotte's death. He hadn't come to terms with them yet. He needed to go to them, and awaken them, and make amends. He wasn't "connected" to Jack, Desmond, Locke, et al. He wasn't in the plane that originally brought everyone to the Island. He wasn't tied to them as they were to each other. This goes for Ana Lucia (even though she was on the plane), too, and Dogen, etc.
Farday's mother couldn't "move on" because she still hadn't been able to come to terms with killing her son. Once she's done so, she can leave. She wasn't holding Daniel back. He, himself, was.