KatRobin said:

Cheese UT....wakey wakey!!

I read the book about this once. Fascinating stuff applying massive magnetic fields to make a ship invisible but, instead, displacing it in space and time.  The film that was made was utter tripe though and did not follow the actual experiment at all.
What do you mean cheesey? On point and insightful I thought
>:)

Basically, in theory, yes. We see because light particles are reflected back from an object to our eyes. A similar principle is used in RADAR in that radio waves are transmitted out and are reflected back by an object, such as a plane back to a receiver. In Stealth technology the material used on an object, such as a plane drastically reduces the amount of energy that it reflects, so that the radio waves from RADAR are not reflected back to the receiver. With light, however, if an object did not reflect light, you would still perceive it as there would be an absence of what would be behind it, so a sort of hole in the overall vistre if what you should be seeing. What you would need to do is to bend the light particles around an object so that what hit your eye was actually what was behind the object, not from the object itself. You may be able to do this with magnets which is what .i believe they were trying to achieve in the Philadelphia Experiment. If viable, it would probably deflect RADAR waves in the same way.
Do you remember the invisible car in Die Another Day? The principle of that was that cameras on the far side of the car transmitted what they saw onto the near side of the car, so instead of the car, you saw what was behind it. I have also heard of inclined mirrors being used on battlefields to reflect back an image of the ground immediately in front of, say, a tank, so that to the naked eye, the tank is not visible. This would not work on RADAR though.
What you need is mirrors to reflect the light, which are made of a stealth material,so as not to return the RADAR waves!

European Union and Fourth Reich? Anybody remember the declassified "la maison rouge" report?

The Appy's & the UT's took a trip to Roswell a couple of years back - now there's a conspiracy and a half! A bit of a giggle really listening to all the foil capped nutters banging on about UFOs!

KatRobin said:

Yes the film was pants. V dodgy 80s synthesiser naffness all through it too... I read the book too but it was pretty hard going cos the original "witness" guy rambled so incoherently. Do you think it's
possible to make an object invisible? It sounds ok on paper...and Einstein had made some discoveries on it if I remember?

In the film, did the ship not re materialise at Pearl Harbour during the Japanese attack in December 1941 and single handily repulse the Japs, thus stopping the USA entering the war leading to a Nazi victory and thus German domination of Europe?
Oh, hold on, the Germans do dominate Europe !

I think they have a clapper to turn in on/off.

For people interested in wild theories, I hope you are familiar with "Snopes", the urban legend killer.  It tells you if some email you just received has any substance to it.  Maybe a better description is the Wikipedia of Urban Legends.