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We've designed a 'flux capacitor', but it won't take us Back to the Future

  • Written by Thomas Stace, Professor in Physics, The University of Queensland
In the Back to the Future movies, the DeLorean car was able to travel through time thanks to a flux capacitor.Wikimedia/Oto Godfrey and Justin Morton

The technology that allowed Marty McFly to travel back in time in the 1985 movie Back to the Future was the mythical flux capacitor, designed by inventor Doc Brown.

We’ve now developed our own...

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