Thread: Philadelphia Experiment

Was the Philadelphia Experiment real or fiction?

From what I can disern this was another name for a secret project also called Project Rainbow, which 'from reports' was an experiment during the second world war to cloak the US warship the USS Eldridge.
It's been suggested that the experiment was allegedly based on an aspect of the unified field theory proposed by Einstein.

There is no factual evidence that this experiment ever happened. In fact, there is evidence that explicitly contradicts the popular stories surrounding the Philadelphia Experiment, e.g. the fact that the USS Eldridge, on the day in question, was not in Philadelphia at all, but on a voyage to the Bahamas.
From a scientific point of view - Einstein never completed his "Unified Field Theory", and even if he did, light rays bent by magnetic fields are not consistent with Maxwell's equations, unless of course the US military has access to a portable black hole...

As with a lot of legends, this one might have started from a kernel of truth. The US navy used to put their ships through a process known as "degaussing". It was used to change the magnetic field of the ship so that it would be undetected by the magnetic mines used by the Germans. This could be construed as "cloaking" the ships from the mines. It is possible that this was misconstrued as trying to make the ship "invisible" giving birth to the legend.

I wondered at any truth in this ever since I saw the film, I think the whole idea is interesting and it seems to have become quite popular. But I do find it far fetched that back in 43 the americans had technology to make anything invisible never mind a warship. I guess though you have partially answered the point that I find the most interesting that is how if the story is fiction did get to be so popular and where and why did it start in the first place.

The stated purpose for the experiment was to make the ship Radar Invisible... Not visually invisible... Supposedly the visual dissapearance was an unexpected side effect... As for the truth of it and the stories of men being merged with the steel of the ship etc. I seriously doubt it happened. If such a disaster had occured the cover-up would have been that the ship was sunk on maneuvers. Not that the Eldridge Was on a cruise in the Tropics.

I think it's a great story and I enjoyed reading about it. I think if half of it was true, we would surely see some of this technology surfacing by now. It sounds to good to just shelve it.

I am a proponent of the governments being given too much credit for secret technology that is awe-inspiring. Also knowledge of ET's etc that is supposedly hidden. I don't think they are that clever.

Hi i am new here, as for the experement it was true, tesla, einstein, and a lot more were involved in this. The ship in question did not end up in Greece, this part is untrue, the ship was pulsed using large coils much the same as degaussing coils, using over 1000 tubes it was pulsed and vanished at the water line, with tragic results....more to follow....Alan.

Originally Posted by phasaedout

Hi i am new here, as for the experement it was true

From the eternal wisdom of wikipedia:

Originally Posted by WP

The story is widely regarded as a hoax. The U.S. Navy maintains that no such experiment was ever conducted, and details of the story contradict well-established facts about the Eldridge itself, as well as the known laws of physics.
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Research into the supposed experiment has revealed many contradictions and inconsistencies in the accounts. No scientific support for the described phenomena or the purported events has surfaced.

So it would appear you are wrong. You will need some pretty convincing evidence. (And how come you have that evidence but no one else does?)

Originally Posted by WP

However, the story has captured imaginations of people in conspiracy theory circles

Don't be that guy.

tesla, einstein, and a lot more were involved in this.

Nikola Tesla wasn't even alive when Project Rainbow was supposedly under way ( Oct 1943 ), and Einstein never completed his Unified Field Theory.

Originally Posted by phasaedout

the ship was pulsed using large coils much the same as degaussing coils, using over 1000 tubes it was pulsed and vanished at the water line, with tragic results....more to follow....Alan.

While it is untrue (i.e. it was an lie) that the ship vanished, it IS true that there were tragic results.
Those "results" being vast numbers of idiots who think that something weird and/ or inexplicable happened at Philadelphia.

Originally Posted by Markus Hanke

tesla, einstein, and a lot more were involved in this.

Nikola Tesla wasn't even alive when Project Rainbow was supposedly under way ( Oct 1943 ), and Einstein never completed his Unified Field Theory.

Oh, but reports of Tesla's death were just part of the Government's Dark Disinformation campaign. He was actually rejuvenated by taking a quick trip through a portable wormhole that he designed, using Einstein's UFT (claims of Einstein's failure are also part of the disinfo campaign; the finished manuscript can be found in the same warehouse that holds the Lost Ark, as seen at the end of Spielberg's film (which, by the way, is actually a documentary cleverly masquerading as entertainment)).

It's about time to move the thread to pseudoscience.

is this about the diary of a marine during ww2?

No curious, it is about a ship that purportedly vanished and reappeared elsewhere in a very short amount of time. It's largely regarded as a hoax, but.....then again......no, it couldn't be, Houdini was dead at that time.

Originally Posted by shlunka

No curious, it is about a ship that purportedly vanished and reappeared elsewhere in a very short amount of time. It's largely regarded as a hoax, but.....then again......no, it couldn't be, Houdini was dead at that time.

Or was he dead at that time?

Originally Posted by Harold14370

It's about time to move the thread to pseudoscience.

Yes it is perhaps a little embarrassing looking at some of my earlier threads.

Originally Posted by stander-j

Originally Posted by shlunka

No curious, it is about a ship that purportedly vanished and reappeared elsewhere in a very short amount of time. It's largely regarded as a hoax, but.....then again......no, it couldn't be, Houdini was dead at that time.

Or was he dead at that time?

Have you noticed that you never see Houdini and Tesla together. One of them leaves the room and few minutes later the other one walks in ...