An alleged experiment performed on the naval ship
USS Eldridge and her crew in the
Philidelphia harbor. As the
legend goes, the
United States Military was working on a new weapon that would throw the balance of power back into their hands. They succeeded, of course, with the invention of the
atom bomb, but they also experimented with other tactical weapons.
One of those was an invisibility device, or a
cloaking device.
Einstein's
unified field theory states somewhere in it that all energy fields effect each other in some way. The military got the idea that, if they make a massive magnetic field around a
ship,
light would seemingly bend around it. Unfortunately, light ALWAYS travels in a straight line. This means that, instead of bending the lightwaves around the ship, the military was going to bend
space-time so the light would "miss" the ship.
A good idea, until they switched on the Eldridge's enormous
magnetic field generators in the morning of Oct. 23, 1943. The ship was engulfed in a green mist, then disappeared totally for
11 minutes. After those 11 minutes, the ship reappeared with most of the crew sick, some dead, and actually
FUSED into the
bulkheads. Durring those 11 minutes, the Eldrige was sighted at the harbor in
Norfolk, Va.
The government denied this ever happened, though. They released a report that the ship never dissappeared from the harbor, and was never in Norfolk. It also explains that they were performing a process called "degaussing" (like what you do to your monitor) on the ship. This used a massive, alternating magnetic field to remove the magnetic charge on the metal portions of the ship, rendering it "
invisible" to magnetic
mines.
You chose to believe what you wish. I'd like to think that man actually warped space-time for a few minutes, but that's me.