Chapter 750 Experiment

The shot-down Johnson opened his parachute and fell into the sea.

As soon as he broke free of the parachute and unscrewed the inflatable vest life jacket, he saw another parachute floating down from the sky. He thought it was his own pilot, but after a closer look, he found that this guy was wearing a German Air Force uniform.

After falling into the water, the German pilot also opened his inflatable life jacket, saw Johnson not far away, and waved to him proudly. "Hey, American, have you tasted our power?!" It was not very fluent English, but Johnson still understood it and spat with disdain. "What are you so proud of? You German guy was shot down!"

"I was unlucky and encountered a mechanical failure, so you took advantage of it. Otherwise, I could have shot down a few more."

"!!" Johnson was so angry that he was too lazy to continue to care about this guy, but the German pilot kept talking to himself. "I heard that your capital, Washington, is almost bombed, right? I wonder why you don't surrender? Your President Roosevelt dragged the United States into the war and then stepped down, leaving you unlucky guys fighting on the front line. Do you think you can defeat us by joining forces with the Soviet Union?"

Just when Johnson was thinking about whether to swim far away from this chatterbox, two seaplanes flew in the distance. The German pilot first fired a flare into the sky, then pulled open a canned object and put it into the sea water, and the surrounding sea water was gradually dyed red.

A seaplane slowly landed on the sea not far away. The German pilot waved to the seaplane and turned back to ask Johnson. "American, are you coming?"

"..." Johnson wanted to refuse stubbornly, but think about it. This place is more than 200 kilometers away from the US coastline. If he doesn't wait for rescue in this vast ocean, he will die here.

He hasn't lived enough. After hesitating for a few seconds, he swam towards the German seaplane.

"Hey, what's going on?!" The maintenance personnel who pulled the German pilot into the cabin saw Johnson following behind.

The German pilot said casually. "Pull him up, he's my prisoner."

The two crew members looked at each other. Although His Highness issued a "special order for combat against the United States" and stipulated that there was no need to rescue the people who fell into the water from the sunken American ship, this guy was a pilot, and pulling him up did not seem to violate His Highness's order.

Just like that, Johnson became a prisoner.

In the Washington Operations Command, everyone received the bad news that their fleet was annihilated, and the German fleet was heading towards the east coast. They would see Boston in eight hours.

Just when President Wilkie and other senior officials were worried about whether to continue to send fighters to stop the German fleet, Yannick and a group of scientists came to a secret port in northern Iceland.

They will conduct a secret experiment here, and the content of the experiment is the famous "Philadelphia Experiment" in later generations.

It is rumored that the "Philadelphia Experiment" adopted Nikola Tesla's research design, so Yannick invited Tesla to come.

"Your Highness, what experiment is this going to do?" Tesla asked curiously, watching many researchers busy preparing something on the dock.

Yannick smiled. "I'm not very clear, because the US government has sealed all the documents related to the experiment. All I know are some rumors." Nicholas is the only one in the world who knows that he is a time traveler. Yannick has nothing to hide from him and tells him everything he knows.

The Philadelphia Experiment is also known as the Rainbow Project. Since the late 1950s, various discussions and speculations about the Philadelphia Experiment have emerged one after another. All crew members involved in the plan denied that any incident had occurred, except for one eyewitness who claimed to have witnessed the entire experiment. Even Hollywood used this incident as the background to shoot a time travel theme science fiction movie called "The Philadelphia Experiment", with a label of "based on real events". However, due to the lack of any direct evidence and the lack of rigorous scientific theoretical basis for the experimental content, the authenticity of the Philadelphia Experiment rumors has been generally questioned and is considered to be a simple urban legend.

The specific content of the legend starts with the Rainbow Project.

The purpose of the Rainbow Project is to develop a technology that can make warships invisible from radar.

Speaking of stealth technology, people who have some knowledge of the military may know that the reason why modern stealth fighters can evade radar is that in addition to the unconventional layout of the appearance design, they mainly rely on the use of wave-absorbing layers and wave-absorbing materials. To put it bluntly, if you want to make something invisible, you have to use special materials when making it.

However, in the "Rainbow Project", the Americans' ideas are bolder or more open-minded. They plan to use electromagnetic equipment to create a huge special magnetic field. Through this magnetic field, the surrounding light waves and radio waves are bent, and then use this "magnetic field" to "wrap" the things they want to protect-such as tanks, warships or buildings. In this way, the enemy cannot see these things on radar.

In June 1943, a group of researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Office-abbreviated as NOR (Office of Naval Research)-began to install electronic experimental equipment on a destroyer named "Eldridge" in the dock of the Philadelphia Naval Base. These devices include: 2 large 75-kilowatt magnetic field generators, 4 sets of special electromagnetic coils, 3 radio frequency transmitters, 3,000 electron tubes for amplifying the power of the equipment, and some special instruments with unknown functions.

In July 1943, all preparations were in place, and the experiment started on time at nine o'clock in the morning on the 22nd.

The power supply to the magnetic generator on the Eldridge was turned on, and a strong magnetic field began to form around the ship. Soon, a green mist slowly surrounded the Eldridge.

At first, everyone thought this was just the "corona phenomenon" formed by nitrogen oxides produced by high-voltage electricity, and didn't pay much attention. What's amazing is that the Eldridge actually disappeared from the radar - the experiment was very successful!

Just as the NOR scientific researchers and the naval officers and soldiers present were about to cheer, they suddenly saw that the Eldridge, shrouded in green mist, was not only missing from the radar, but also began to appear looming in people's eyes. The outline is blurred, as if it is going to be completely invisible from the "material" level!

This phenomenon was beyond everyone's expectations. Not only the navy officers and soldiers were stunned, but even the scientific researchers were confused and quickly cut off the power supply of the magnetic generator. When the green fog gradually dissipated, everyone saw that the Eldridge gradually returned to normal and reappeared on the radar. The scientific researchers quickly boarded the ship to check the situation and found that all the sailors on the ship were staggering and dizzy. Some said they could not tell the direction, and some said they were sick and weak. After examination by the military doctor, the health of these sailors was not serious. .

Although there was such a disturbing "interlude", fortunately, no damage was caused. The most important thing is: the experiment was really successful!

At this time, World War II was in its peak stage. The rampant German "wolves" in the Atlantic were trying to cut off the Allied maritime transportation lines; while in the Pacific, the U.S. military was launching a comprehensive naval showdown with the Japanese army. At this time, if there could really be a A technology that can make warships invisible would be extremely beneficial to the war situation.

Therefore, NOR did not care about the insignificant little troubles in the experiment. With the successful experience in July, they made some small adjustments and upgrades to the experimental equipment and decided to conduct a second experiment.

On the afternoon of October 28, the magnetic generator on the Eldridge was powered on again. The form of the experiment this time was basically the same as the first time, but the crew on the ship were all replaced by new people.

At 17:15 p.m., the electromagnetic field generator was started. A few minutes after the green "corona" appeared, the Eldridge began to become blurred. Soon, the entire hull of the ship began to "disappear" little by little. But this time, the scientific researchers did not rush to cut off the power, but just watched the warship gradually blur. Soon, with a flash of dazzling blue light, the Eldridge completely disappeared from people's eyes!

The disappeared Eldridge instantly appeared at the Norfolk Naval Base in New York, more than 40 kilometers away. According to the accounts of many eyewitnesses at the Norfolk Naval Base, the time when the USS Eldridge appeared in front of their eyes with blue lightning flashing lasted about 7 minutes. 7 minutes later, the warship was seen again. It disappeared in the dazzling lightning, and at this time, people at the Philadelphia Naval Base saw the destroyer reappearing in its original position.

According to witnesses in Philadelphia, the Eldridge disappeared for about 10-15 minutes. This time, the crew of the Eldridge was not as lucky as the previous batch. After the scientific researchers boarded the ship, they found that all the people on the ship fell into a state of madness. Many people had a complete mental breakdown and had no memory of what happened in the past ten minutes. Some of them were lying on the ground talking nonsense, some were holding their heads and crying and shouting, some were covered in blue flames, screaming and running around on the deck, desperately jumping over the side of the ship and jumping into the sea. , and some people said that their eyes were dark, they were stumbling around in the cabin, they could not see anything, and they were completely blind. The most horrifying and unbelievable thing is that the bodies of five crew members were actually embedded in the cabin and deck, and their flesh and steel hull were integrated!

If the last abnormal phenomenon was just a small accident during the experiment, then this time the accident can be said to be catastrophic. After some emergency treatment, except for the crew members who were burned to death, most of the people on the ship were sent to the naval hospital. Some crew members had a complete mental breakdown and could only be sent to a mental hospital. Some crew members disappeared mysteriously during the experiment. There is no clear explanation of what happened to the five crew members whose bodies were embedded in the hull, or whether they were alive or dead.

Subsequently, for unknown reasons, the US military terminated the "Rainbow Project" and kept all experimental data and experimental evidence as top secrets.

After listening to this, Tesla looked like he had heard a fantasy. "It's unbelievable. This is time travel? Will future generations have relevant technology?"

Yannick shook his head. "No, Dr. Einstein did say that you can travel through time and space at the speed of light; let alone the speed of light, the fastest spacecraft built by humans before I traveled through time was set by a solar probe named Parker. It reached 147 kilometers per second. "147 kilometers per second is still far behind the speed of light of 300,000 kilometers per second.