Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27934866-20160817023544

When Baelfire first arrived in the Land Without Magic/Our World it was during the 19th Century let's say for arguments sake 1858 since that was the year Big Ben was completed. When he was taken to Neverland he didn’t arrive back in this world until 1992, 134 years later because as we know time moves faster in Neverland and nobody ages.

In the Gargoyles cartoon series that ran from 1994 to 1997, there is an island known as Avalon (whereabouts unknown in OUAT) where time moves slower. For every hour that passes on Avalon, one day passes in this world. In the 1991 film Hook, 3 days passed in Neverland but when Pan and family returned they'd only been gone for the night, so it's like for every 2 hours that pass in this world, 1 days passes in Neverland.

So 5 Years, 3 Month, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 2 Hours on Avalon is 134 Years minimum in this world. However suprisingly after hours of calculating it turns out 134 Years in this world is 1707 Years, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 18 Hours minimum in Neverland.

The only logical explination I can think of for this is Time Dilation. i.e. In forward time, time moves slower, in reverse time it moves faster. Neverland seems to be a realm where time moves in the opposite direction hence why someone from any other realm where time moves in the normal direction (such as Wendy Darling) can spend 6 hours there, but to them it feels like it's been 3 days, and why nothing ages. It's as though the opposite flow of time holds back the inhabitants forward flow of time hence why they don't age. However although the inhabitants go about as if time is moving normally for them, as discovered by Wendy Darling it's actually moving much faster so what seems to have been 2 hours in Neverland or any realm to them has actually been 1 Day. So what seems to have been 116 Years for Hook, and 134 Years for Baelfire may has actually been well over 1000 Years, but as I said their forward flow of time against Neverlands reverse flow of time is what keeps them and everyone from aging. 