Have you all ever heard of this

[JUICE]

I remember watching a tv program on this a few years ago, on Unsloved Mysteries or some show like that. Do you all believe in this.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/philadelphia.html
http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm909.html

[Bouncer]

Keep in mind they werent making it disapear or anything. They were simply trying to make it a mirage. With the right weather conditions whole islands have become invisable to the eye. Im sure it could be done but I dont know about 60 years ago.

[Primal Instinct]

Juice,

The story grew into something completely different over time. I believe that the US government was experimenting on the USS Eldridge to make it RADAR invisible, like today's stealth fighter and bomber. Some of the myth grew because Einstein was consulted about it at that time and it was believed that Einstein's Unified Field theory might be of use to that project. Mind you, having all of that electrical equipment fired up on board the ship at once probably created some severe health risks from the pervasive EMF radiation. They claimed that they never did get it to work. This is a possibility because of the route that Lockheed-Martin took in the development of the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and more recently, the stealth ships like the Sea Shadow, that the US miltary is currently developing for their DDX project. If the Philadelphia Experiment actually worked, military weapons manufacturers wouldn't have chosen the stealth route that we're on now. What would be the point? The interesting part of stealth technology is that none of these vehicles have any 90 degree angles on them nor do they have any curved surfaces either because curved surfaces reflect energy, like a soap bubble reflects light or a submarine's nose deflects water. It's all flat panels at obtuse angles painted with a radar-absorbing paint as well. This makes it very difficult to be picked up on radar. The stealth fighter on radar screens for instance, has a cross section of less than that of a sparrow. No kidding.


I'll probably murder this quickie, down and dirty description but for simplicity's sake; the story probably was romanticized because of Einstein's involvement (usually overstated) and the principles of his then somewhat still new Unified Field Theory. He spent 30 years working on this scientific theory. There's much more to it but it basically relates to Newton's work (calculus and gravity) and Einstien's own work (General Relativity), where he tried to combine the two as parts of a larger theory that describes how gravity and electromagnetivity actually tie in together. You see, although they are both seperately provable scientific theories, they actually contradict each other in nature. Einstein believed that they were a part of a larger explanation of EVERYTHING in the universe and that there was a missing link between the two. This was how the latter part of his career was spent -trying to find the elusive link. Part of this work entailed how two solid objects cannot occupy the same space. This was most likely the base of the "Philadelphia Experiment" legend. The military was primarily interested in the radar masking properties possible with controlling aspects of electromagnetism and the reflection/deflection of energy waves ranging from light to radar signals whiche were also electrical energy.


How could one actually transport an entire warship through time and space to a different point in the physical world without displacing an existing object that may occupy the same space? Even so, assuming that we developed a method to actually send an object through these dimensions, how could one direct the point as to where an object could be accurately placed? This is the idea behind the transporter thingies on Star Trek when Scotty always has to beam those loser's down or up from somewhere on a planet. Although it was very advanced for its day, I hated that frigging show, lol.


**EDIT** I just read the links, lol. Could have saved a bunch of typing. Damn.