I read in a book 'The Philadephia Experiment' that the US Navy carried out an experiment on the use of strong magnetic field interacting with other forces of nature and the experiment went awry causing the disappearance of the ship and its crew. It was said that the forces responsible for the ship's disappearance are also responsible for the disappearance of bodies at the Bermuda triangle. So my question is has there been an new facts or more investigation into the experiment?
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The real experiment was to protect the ship from magnetic mines.\nThe time travel idea was fiction,and later a movie.Total fantasy.
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It's a fact but no longer a mystery.\nThe Bermuda Triangle encompasses an area with large deposits of frozen gas hydates. Normally these are stable under pressure under the sea bed but occasionally the pressure is released, most commonly after an undersea landslide (very common of the Mississipi delta). When the pressure is reduced, gas (methane) is released and travels to the surface. Simple physics will tell you that water with gas bubbles will not be as buoyant as ordinary water thus a ship travelling over an area where gas is being released is likely to suddenly sink. As for aircraft, the released gas gains an electrical charge as it rises through the water and at the point of emergence it causes localised magnetic disturbances which effect compasses and other electonic equipment.
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I found this very easily on the Internet.  You could have done the same thing.\n\nhttp://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/RADEC.HTML
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Well even though humans have known about magnets for thousands of years, the real reason they work is still somewhat mysterious. Depending on how deep you want to investigate, it can be a very complicated phenomenon. \n\nA magnet is, at its foundation, caused by the movement of electrical charge (yes this is the Biot-Savart Law). When charges (like electrons for example) move, they produce magnetic fields. If a charge moves in a loop, it creates a magnetic field. The magnetic field can be basically represented by an invisible set of arrows in space, that point in a direction. In the case of the loop, the arrows of the magnetic field will point out of the loop for a positive charge moving counter clockwise (this is the so-called "right hand rule"), and into the loop for a charge moving clockwise (some pictures are in the reference attached). \n\nThe magnetic field has a "north" end and a "south end". The little arrows from our moving charge are pointing in the "north" magnetic direction, and away from the "south" magnetic direction. It is a mysterious and interesting property of electromagnetism that two objects with fields that oppose each other, i.e., the little arrows of the field do not line up, so either the north end of one field is facing the north end of the other field, or the two south ends are facing each other, repel, or resist movement of the two objects towards each other with some force. \n\nOn the other hand, if the little arrows line up, the two objects attract each other with some force. \n\nThe little arrows are aligned along the so-called "magnetic lines of force". \n\nThe forces that result from magnetic fields (and for that matter, electric fields) are fundamental forces, and part of the four fundamental forces of the universe (strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravity). It is believed that these forces are caused, at their base, by particles passing "messenger particles" back and forth. In the case of electromagnetism, the messenger particle is a photon. How this actually works is still somewhat poorly understood, and is involved with the world of quantum mechanics, which is very counterintuitive but interesting. \n\nHowever, what is important is that we understand it well enough to make models of magnetism, and to make predictions based on those models which we can verify and use. All of electricity and electric motors are based on our ability to design systems with magnets and to be able to build and use them.
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The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a geographical area in the Atlantic Ocean approximately triangular in shape and is famous for its supposed paranormal activities. The Bermuda Triangle is an approximate equilateral triangle with its three corners roughly defined by the islands of Bermuda (one corner) and Puerto Rico near its capital city San Juan (another corner), and near Miami, Florida (a third corner), giving it an area of nearly half a million square miles (1.2 million km²).\nThere are many claims of paranormal activity within the Triangle, especially the inexplicable disappearance of ships and aircraft, or of their crews. Other common claims made of the region are that the laws of physics do not operate here as they do elsewhere, or that extraterrestrial beings are responsible for the disappearances.\nFor more info about the Bermuda Triangle , go to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle
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The Bermuda Triangle has a reputation for being an area where ships and airplanes disappear, often under mysterious circumstances. This reputation came to public awareness in the 1950s and became a household name in the 1970s, mostly due to "The Bermuda Triangle", a bestselling book written by Charles Berlitz.\n\nDespite the hype, this region has a comparable rate of maritime and aerial incidents as any other similar sized region of the ocean. Lloyd's of London, a world-renowned insurer of maritime vessels, does not charge a higher insurance premium for ships that regularly traverse the triangle.
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Bermuda Shorts:\n\nA Brief History of\nthe Devil's Triangle\n\nLimbo of the Lost. The Twilight Zone. Hoodoo Sea. The Devil's Triangle. The vast three-sided segment of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, did not receive its most famous nickname until 1964, but reports of bizarre happenings there, or nearby, have been recorded for centuries. In fact, many claim that Christopher Columbus bore witness to the Bermuda Triangle's weirdness.\n\nAs the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria sailed through the area in 1492, it is reported that Columbus's compass went haywire and that he and his crew saw weird lights in the sky, but these events have mundane explanations. From the account in Columbus's journal, it is thought that his compass's slight inaccuracy stemmed from nothing more than the discrepancy between true north and magnetic north. As for the lights, Columbus wrote of seeing "a great flame of fire" that crashed into the ocean -- probably a meteor. He saw lights in the sky again on October 11, which, of course, was the day before his famous landing. The lights, brief flashes near the horizon, were spotted in the area where dry land turned out to be.\n\nAnother historical event retroactively attributed to the Bermuda Triangle is the discovery of the Mary Celeste. The vessel was found abandoned on the high seas in 1892, about 400 miles off its intended course from New York to Genoa. There was no sign of its crew of ten or what had happened to them. Since the lifeboat was also missing, it is quite possible that they abandoned the Mary Celeste during a storm that they wrongly guessed the ship could not weather. But what makes it even harder to call this a Bermuda Triangle mystery is that it the ship was nowhere near the Triangle -- it was found off the coast of Portugal.\n\nThe Bermuda Triangle legend really began in earnest on December 5, 1945, with the famed disappearance of Flight 19. Five Navy Avenger bombers mysteriously vanished while on a routine training mission, as did a rescue plane sent to search for them -- six aircraft and 27 men, gone without a trace. Or so the story goes.\n\nWhen all the facts are laid out, the tale of Flight 19 becomes far less puzzling. All of the crewmen of the five Avengers were inexperienced trainees, with the exception of their patrol leader, Lt. Charles Taylor. Taylor was perhaps not at the height of his abilities that day, as some reports indicate that he had a hangover and failed in his attempts to pass off this flight duty to someone else.\n\nWith the four rookie pilots entirely dependent on his guidance, Taylor found that his compass malfunctioned soon into the flight. Taylor chose to continue the run on dead reckoning, navigating by sighting landmarks below. Being familiar with the islands of the Florida Keys where he lived, Taylor had reason to feel confident in flying by sight. But visibility became poor due to a brewing storm, and he quickly became disoriented.\n\nFlight 19 was still in radio contact with the Fort Lauderdale air base, although the weather and a bad receiver in one of the Avengers made communication very spotty. They may have been guided safely home if Taylor had switched to an emergency frequency with less radio traffic, but he refused for fear they would be unable to reestablish contact under these conditions.\n\nTaylor ended up thinking they were over the Gulf of Mexico, and ordered the patrol east in search of land. But in reality, they had been heading up the Atlantic coastline, and Taylor was mistakenly leading his hapless trainees much further out to sea. Radio recordings indicate that some of them suggested to Taylor that Florida was actually to the west.\n\nA search party was dispatched, which included the Martin Mariner that many claim disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle along with Flight 19. While it is true that it never returned, the Mariner did not vanish; it blew up 23 secon
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the mystery surrounding the bermuda triangle is because of the abundance of folk lore and urban legend about lost ships (e.g. the Mary Celeste), planes that fly out of course, people who went in and never got out. These stories are myths; the 'mystery' of the bermuda triangle is actually scientifically explainable: in the bermuda triangle, the magnetic north is the same as the true north (elsewhere, these two are different), and this phenomenon screws up the plane/ship/persons' radar and compass systems. Most often than not, the ship captain or pilot or person do not know this and fail to adjust their systems accordingly, hence, accidents happen.
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Don't know yet, but lots of wild theories and mathematical approaches being tried (some, via\nhttp://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?p=4%208%2015%2016%2023%2042):\n\nhttp://www.d.kth.se/~dicander/lost.html\n\nhttp://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3
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The Bermuda Triangle in the Caribbean.
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Various explanations for the apparent high number of dissapperances have been put forward, ranging from the mundane to the hyper-fantastic.\n\nSkeptics contend that this region has a comparable rate of maritime and aerial incidents as any other similar sized region of the ocean. They point out that Lloyd's of London, a world-reknowned insurer of maritime vessels, does not charge a higher insurance premium for ships that regularly traverse the triangle.\n\nScientific considerations for an increased dissaperance rate take into acount that this region experiences severe tropical storms and is the source of many hurricanes. These storms create an increased danger to both ship and air traffic.\n\nRougue waves have also been put forward as a possible cause. These rare waves can reach heights of as much as 100 feet (30 meters), easily swamping most ships. Rouge waves, however, would have no effect on air travel.\n\nA third scientific explanation is methane hydrates. Methane deposits on the ocean floor may release bursts of methane gas that reduces the density of the water it permeates. Since ships rely on displacement to stay afloat, a reduction of density in the water would cause a ship to immediately sink. As the methane leaves the water and rises into the air, it would reduce the density of the air as well, thus reducing lift on aircraft, causing them to descend rapidly. In addition, the methane would change the air mixture taken into the engines of the aircraft, causing the engine to stall. While these events have not been witnessed in nature, they have been proven in lab experiments.\n\nMore exotic explanations for the Bermuda Triangle include it being an area of magnetic disturbance, temporal (or time) holes, the location of the lost city of Atlantis, or extra-terrestrial abduction.
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While most of the time to and from earth was spent checking systems and so forth, they were able to accomplish a few experiemenst in the cramped quarters of the Apollo capsule during their "coasting" periods between the earth and moon and back.\n\nComposit Casting:\nSeveral compounds were heated, mixed, and then allowed to cool, to check low gravity mixing conditions.\n\nElectrophoretic Separation:\nA number of organic compounds were separated by electrophoresis, to check low gravity separation conditions\n\nHeat Flow and Convection:\nExamination of heat flow rates in fluids in low-gravity\n\nLight Flashes Experiment:\nMany poeple in space experienced flashes of light, both with their eyes open and with them closed.  This device was to test if the hypothesis about them coming from cosmic rays striking, and interacting with the eye were the cause of them.  They were.\n\nLiquid Transfer Demonstration:\nSeveral expirements involving trying to manipulate fluids were performed.\n\nSee Source for details of each experiment (I dislike to copy and paste entire pages unless I personally have written them)
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The Legends\n\n[ Columbus - The Tragedies -Atlantis & UFOs ]\n \nIn the past 100 years, the Bermuda Triangle has claimed over 1000 lives.  In reality, that is only 10 a year.  Though these lives lost are tragedies, this is not that incredible of a figure.  It is how they died that have sparked many legends.  These flames were given fuel by V. Gaddis article in "Argossy:  Magazine of Masterpiece Fiction" where the term "Bermuda Triangle was first used. \n \nThe first legends of the Bermuda Triangle begin already with Cristopher Columbus.  As a captain, he was greatly respected, and his brave sailing efforts helped revolutionize the world.  Much of the information we have about Columbus is picked up directly from his journal, so we are able to trace his footsteps to the New World.  His first problem occured as he ran into the Sargasso Sea.  The crew was greatly disappointed when seaweed and land birds were sighted, but after a few days no land was to be seen.  Soon after, Columbus reported his compass acting strangly.  He did not report this to his crew due to their deep superstitions.    Days later, Columbus saw a large meteor fall from the sky.  He described it as "a large ball of light fallen from the sky."   It is unsure whether he mentions this occurences in awe, because of its great size, or in fright.  Later in their trip, Columbus and a few crew members sighted a few dancing lights on the horizon.  They wandered about in the Carribbean for over a week yet before sighting land.\n \nSince Columbus, as many as 100 ships and planes have been reported missing, taking over 1000 lives.  A select few of them are reported here...   (feel free to submit your own should you so desire.  Please report your sources.)\n \n\n1872:  The Mary Celeste\n\n1945:  The disappearance of 5 Navy avengers - Flight 19\n\n1947:  Army C-45 Superfort vanishes 100 miles off Bermuda.\n1948:  Four-engined Tudor IV lost with 31 lives.\n  1948:  DC-3 lost with 32 passengers and crew.\n1949:  Second Tudor IV vanishes.\n1950:  Giant US Air Force Globemaster lost.\n1950:  American freighter, SS Sandra (350 ft), sinks without a trace.\n1952:  British York transport plane lost with 33 aboard.\n1954:  US Navy Lockheed Constellation vanishes with 42 aboard.\n1956:  US Navy seaplane, Martin p5M, dessappears with crew of ten.\n1962:  US Air Force KB-50 tanker plane lost.\n1963:  Marine Sulpher Queen vanishes without a trace.\n1967:  Military YC-122, converted to cargo plane, lost.\n1970:  French freighter Milton latrides disappears.\n1972:  German freighter Anita (20,000 tons), lost with crew of 32.\n1997:   Passengers dissappear from German yacht.\n\n \n\nOther people believe that the Triangle houses the famous lost city of Atlantis.  No evidence has been brought forth to prove this theory, but many claim to have seem or "felt the powers" of the lost city.  Other people look at the lack of information and mystery involved and turn to the only other possible solution--Aliens!  Again, there is little evidence to show any sign of UFOs in the area.  Several people have claimed to have made UFO sightings, but even popular UFO experts and enthusiasts do not support the photographs involved.\n \nPerhaps the ocean is to remain a secret to man, a mystery, to keep us away from the power nature truly has over man.  This mystery can serve as a warning and to inspire awe into men's heart, looking at the greatness and power this great Creation.
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The Philadelphia experiment was just a film.\n\nIt is based on some experiments on counterlighting which used bright lights to hide a ship (and worked pretty well) but which did not involve any deaths or teleporting (ships had access to a fast canal for that) nor did it involve the U.S.S. Eldridge.\n\nSo the film is just the delusions of a bunch of crackpots.
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There was quite a bit we learned during the finale. Here's some of the more important stuff. For more information, check out the source.\n\n--- http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Push_the_Button ---\nThe button serves as a venting mechanism for electromagnetic energy located within the sealed portion of The Swan. The "incident", according to Kelvin was a leak of said energy from it's containment. Geological anomalies in the Island cause this energy to build up over time. After 108 minutes, the energy buildup is large enough that failure to vent the energy has catastrophic results. It has not yet been revealed why the values are not (cannot be?) automatically entered by a mechanical device or computer program, rather than by human beings. Desmond failed to push the button on-time on September 22, 2004 , triggering a system failure. Although the sequence was entered shortly after the time expired, the resulting magnetic burst was assumed to be strong enough to cause Flight 815 to crash.\n\n--- http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Snowglobe ---\nThe island is refered to as such by Desmond, in episode Live Together, Die Alone, after attempting to flee from the vicinity in his sailboat, implying that there is no conventional means to get away from it. He bases that assumption to the fact that he was sailing for about two and a half weeks in the open sea, on 9 knots (speed of travelling), heading west, and, as he states, that should place him in the Fiji in less than a week (Desmond is an experienced sailor; he participated in a sailboat world race and that's how he ended up on the island). Desmond's assumption is later confirmed when the man refered to as Henry Gale (maybe He?), who also appears to be a leader figure among the others, tells Michael that, once he is rescued, there is no way he could find the way back to the island. We have to presume, of course, that the word "rescue" carries its ordinary connotation (the way the survivors mean it).
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why don't you have a reseach at the internet. that what yahoo! are for it is a search engine. maybe you can get the answers and check it out at the public library too. i have a friend who has a book about bermuda triangle. i can check it out and tell you if i got time. ok. did you know there is also a bermuda island? watch 'LOST'. they are a bunch of people who are stranded at the bermuda island..
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No, I dont think your crazy. Did you hear on the History Channel the scientist have a theory now, they are saying the gases from the water rises causing vapors to go into the atmosphere causing people who go out there to "hallucinate".This theory still dont explain why there are no bodies when the plane crashes or the boat sinks. One pilot describe daggers hitting the cockpit. Somethings man wasnt meant to explore, see , or bother with.Could it be the devil and its angels?Well, I believe it could be the place devil landed after he was cast out of heaven.