The PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENTis an alleged military experiment that is said to have been carried out by the U.S. Navy at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania some time around October 28, 1943. The U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge was claimed to be rendered invisible (or cloaked) to enemy devices. The story is thought to be a hoax.[1][2][3] 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 commonly accepted physics.[4] Contents [hide] 1 Synopsis 2 Origins of the story 2.1 Morris Jessup and Carlos Miguel Allende 2.2 The Office of Naval Research and the Varo annotation 2.3 Misunderstanding of documented naval experiments 3 Repetitions of the story 3.1 Hollywood interpretation and the Bielek testimony 3.2 Evidence and research 3.3 Timeline inconsistencies 3.4 Alternative explanations 4 In popular culture 5 See also 6 Notes 7 External links Synopsis[edit] Note: Several different and sometimes contradictory versions of the alleged experiment have circulated over the years. The following synopsis illustrates key story points common to most accounts.[2] The experiment was allegedly based on an aspect of the unified field theory, a term coined by Albert Einstein.[citation needed] The Unified Field Theory aims to describe mathematically and physically the interrelated nature of the forces that comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity, in other words uniting the fields of electromagnetism and gravity into one field. Consequently, if light were bent, then space-time would be bent, effectively creating an invisible time machine.[citation needed] According to the accounts, unspecified researchers thought that some version of this Unified Field Theory would enable a person to use large electrical generators to bend light around an object via refraction, so that the object became completely invisible. The Navy would have regarded this as being of obvious military value, and by the accounts, it sponsored the experiment. Another unattributed version of the story proposes that researchers were preparing magnetic and gravitational measurements of the seafloor to detect anomalies, supposedly based on Einsteins attempts to understand gravity. In this version, there were also related secret experiments in Nazi Germany to find antigravity, allegedly led by SS-Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler.[citation needed]
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