Name this Experiment?

Question

Way back in Middle School, I joined a club called 'Tales of the Unknown'

There was an experiment where someone was trying to power a tanker or something with only electricity. They used too much and it disappeared for two minutes or so. When it returned, everyone was melted onto the deck, and all the metal was welded together. No one survived. They think they travelled dimensions.

What was it called?

Answer 1

It is the Philadelphia Experiment. This is a story that has many, many logical and scientific holes in it. First of all, it's taken solely from the unsubstantiated word of a singular person in Carlos Allende. Second, it's inferred from the beginning that it was experimented from day one on a full size ship with a manned crew when such an experiment would have started in a lab on a much smaller scale graduating to larger models with sheep and pigs as opposed to humans far before a full sized ship with humans. The biggest problem I have is the "teleporting" to Norfolk and back. Earth is moving through space at approximatelty 4 1/2 miles per second. Not only would the Eldridge not return to the Philadelphia shipyards it more likely would have wound up in our atmosphere or inside the Earth's crust.

Answer 2

that would be scary! i have never heard of it but it seems cool.

Answer 3

philadelphia

Answer 4

I think your talking about the Philadelphia Experiment, but unless your in your 70's it didn't (allegedly) happen when you where in middle school.  The movie Philadelphia Experiment came out in the 80's I believe.  You can also check out project rainbow and the Montauk project.  They all have conspiracies theories tied to them along the lines of what you've mentioned "time travel".  

Answer 5

This is for the idiots that say it was a myth.

This is what the government says, they refuse to accept or deny. I'll post it here because those idiot skeptics won't take the time to read it.

"A comprehensive search of the Archives has failed to identify records of a Project Rainbow relating to teleportation or making a ship disappear."

Arcanum, hang in there buddy. Tesla was the real thing, yes he did work on the project. Einstein was a Tesla wannabe.

Yes the ship did disappear to say that it didn't is to throw away all those men's lives that were killed and maimed because of the experiments. In their memory I would not do that, the Y&A censors be damned!

Answer 6

Its the Philadelphia Experiment. I'm fairly sure they used some of Tesla's work. Speaking of which, current day there is a guy that has always adored Tesla and has actually replicated his experiments. He has a website with pictures and short videos of unburnt wood stuck in chunks of metal, metal being translucent, and metal turning into spaghetti-like strands etc.. I forget his name but he resides in California, I think San Fransisco.

Considering metal can actually be manipulated in such a way, the Philadelphia Experiment seems plausible.

Answer 7

As others have already mentioned, this was called the Philadelphia Experiment. However, it is just a pop-culture story filled with a little mystery. The whole thing originated with an annotated book sent to the Navy by Carlos Allende, whose real name was Carl Allen. There are many problems with Allen's story, one of the biggest being the fact that the Eldridge, the ship he claims to have witnessed disappear, was nowhere near Philadelphia at the time.

Carl Allen, or Carlos Allende, was a crazy person with an overactive imagination.

The mysterious part of the Philadelphia Experiment is why the story of a crazy person caught the attention of the U.S. Navy. Why would such a blatantly false fairy tale interest them? ...No one seems to know.

Answer 8

The Philadelphia Experiment.