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The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
★ 6.1 · 440 ratings on TMDB
The experiment that should never have happened 41 years ago...is still going on.
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
DirectorStewart Raffill
The emergence reading
The Philadelphia Experiment keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E14 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0vortexa permanent spacetime vortex that pulls matter into hyperspace whenever the experimental field is active (technology · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Starship Troopers (1997)E12/E13 · Adventure, Science Fiction
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)E11/E12 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Serenity (2005)E10/E11 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)E9/E11 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)E11/E12 · Adventure, Science Fiction
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)E13 · Adventure, Science FictionAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
