The Philadelphia Experiment - Springtown ISD



Tina Turkey

Ms. Mitchell

English IV

17 November 2014

The Philadelphia Experiment

Since the conception of modern technology, there have been people that are afraid of it. Humans are naturally curious, and the same could be said of those conspiracy theorists around The Philadelphia Experiment. Allegedly, the experiment was conducted in the morning in the harbor. It started as a standard military test of electromagnetic radar cloaking, in order to jam the signals of submarine radars and effectively render the test ship (The USS Eldridge) “invisible” to radar. It became quickly evident however, that this was not a run of the mill test. According to eyewitnesses, the ship began to “phase in and out of visibility.” Eventually, the ship disappeared totally and reappeared at another port momentarily, only to reappear where it started, in Philadelphia. During the “phasing” of the ship throughout the experiment, men reported that they could walk through walls and other solid objects. Tragically, some men were reported to become stuck within anchors, walls and other solid objects once the experiment was complete.

To say that this experiment seems “farfetched” would be an understatement. The US Navy denies that such an experiment was ever even conducted, much less, would be possible. To the uninformed, it seems ridiculous that an experiment of such magnitude and obscure science could ever have happened. The Philadelphia Experiment seems less like an actual test conducted by the navy and more like an episode of The Twilight Zone, an impossible, even laughable conspiracy. However, theoretical physics suggests otherwise.

According to Stephen Hawking, space and time are one entity, which can be referred to as, not surprisingly, space-time. Space-time, much like any other fabric, can be stretched, folded and warped. Space-time is, and can be affected by anything that sits within it. For example, it is theorized that gravity is caused by the Earth sitting within the fabric of space and time. Much like an apple sitting in the middle of a stretched out table cloth, it draws the ‘fabric’ in. In order to teleport an object, one would have to, effectively, fold space and time in on itself, creating a sort of tube or tunnel, what some theoretical physicists call a wormhole. As much as this sounds like technology from a Saturday morning sci-fi program, theoretically it is possible. The visualization of this ‘wormhole’ is difficult to conceptualize, but it would be much like folding a fabric several times and then pushing a sewing needle through, the fabric being space-time and the sewing needle being the wormhole. Effectively, one could ‘jump’ objects and skip through massive expanses of space and time, with considerably less effort.

The more difficult, and confusing, part of teleportation really comes from the prepping of the object to teleport it. According to the theory of Quantum Teleportation, teleportation would only really be possible by dematerializing an object, (taking it apart at the atomic level) and rematerializing it somewhere else. The rematerialized object would not actually be the original, but a copy of the original object’s atoms, rearranged and reassembled into a copy of the original object. At the atomic level, the particles are copied and realigned to form an exact copy of the original. It is unclear as to whether this ‘teleportation’ would actually work for living objects, (such as sailors) but researchers wager that it would be possible considering the teleportation would theoretically happen at the atomic level.

Now, while the navy alleges that they never had the technology to perform such an experiment, and they never did, sources have neither been able to confirm nor deny that the Philadelphia Experiment ever happened. It is known that in the past the US Military has been able to cover up and hide certain experiments, like in the case of MK Ultra, which has since been proven to be true. It is known that the navy was conducting an experiment in electromagnetic radiation and cloaking that day, however, as to whether the USS Eldridge teleported, the case remains unresolved.

Through theoretical physics and scientific study, it has been proven that the Philadelphia Experiment would have actually been theoretically possible; however it is unknown whether or not the US Military has technologies capable of space-time warp quantum teleportation. Although the military denies allegation and accusations of the experiment, as no records of the experiment currently exist, it is most nearly impossible to prove decisively whether or not it actually happened.

The important information to know is that it could happen, and that it is possible, and that sometime in our near future, warp technology and even time travel could be commercially available. So whether or not the Philadelphia Experiment actually happened is really a moot point. The fact of the matter is it might have, and that should be enough to keep us on our toes.

Works Cited

“Philadelphia Experiment.” The Skeptic’s Dictionary. 15 Feb. 2011. Web. 14 Oct. 2013.

“Quantum Teleportation.” IBM Research. Web. 14 Oct. 2013.

“Space and Time Warps.” Stephen Hawking. Web. 14 Oct. 2013.

“The Philadelphia Experiment.” The Montauk Project. Peter Moon and Preston B. Nichols. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.

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