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if i remember correctly the ideas behing the experiment were loosly based on einsteins theories at the time. the idea was to create such a powerfull and massive EM field that light itself would be bent around it. the truth is no one really knows what happened back then. there was a movie made about it where two crewman who jumped overboard went into the future. but that was the movie. the reality from what i've read is that when the ship appeared again it was dead in the water. when it was boarded the found several crewman missing (possibly incinerated or according to eye witness accounts the jumped overboard and were never found) those that were left behind were all severly burned and some were even found merged with the bulkheads of the ship. how they came to be that way is still a mystery according to most things i read on the subject. one theory states that the bulkheads because so hot that they were viscious and crewmen "sunk" into them. other theories state that those crewmen were "phased" into the bulkheads. either one is very strange. but the movie is a good laugh and is loosly based on the true story if your into old school sci-fi.
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