Teleporting

[jhiker]

Did the Philadelphia Experiment really take place?

[georgit79]

Can't give you an answer, but it certainly sounds intriguing...could you or somebody else tell me what it is/was?

[fo3nix]

an "experiment" in 1947 conducted by the US navy, with thomas townsend brown, into experiemnts with large electromagnetic fields.

happened on a ship, and apparently it disappeared, leaving only the indent of the hull in the water. and was spotted at the same time a few hundred miles up the coast.

see titled book by Charles Berlitz.

personally i thnk something happened, but not the more exotic theories. just some investigations.

[goldenboy]

apparently some of the sailors rematerialised within the bulkheads and walls of the ship still alive, but that could all be balls.

[MargeB]

I believe they were using it on the Loch Ness monster when I went to see her....

[jake-the-peg]

Teleportation of a sort is possible but not for you and me only for sub-atomic particles where it's called quantum mechanical tunneling. If you have a very narrow "barrier" something like an electron can suddenly appear on the other side but the wider the barrire the less likey this is to hppen. The effect is used in something called a tunnel diode.

As great a story as it is I can pretty categorically say that it was - how was it put further up the thread? -oh yes - balls

[WaldoMcFroog]

Lots of evidence here to suggest that nothing untoward happened:

http://skepdic.com/philadel.html

Of course, some people will merely reply, 'Ah, that's what they want you to believe...'

[Skids]

This is the official US Navy line:

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm

[Loosehead]

teleportation, not withstanding quantum tunnelling mentioned below, requires that the heisenberg uncerntainly principle be curcumvented. You need what the starship Enterprise has, a " heisenberg compensator". So I would say it's yet another branch of the wonderful world of total b*&^($ks

[fo3nix]

jake-the-peg
Teleportation of a sort is possible but not for you and me

This isn't true. It's entirely possible, just very very unlikely.