Has anyone invented the flux capacitor yet?

Question

I want to put it in my delorian and go in to the future.

I have picked up some plutonium from an old russian submarine.

Answer 1

Well sure, if you have a spare US$175,000 you can buy one at http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=28

Or, if you wanted the replica of Doc's go to http://cgi.ebay.com/Back-to-the-Future-Delorean-Flux-Capacitor_W0QQitemZ7615255796QQcategoryZ60361QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem. Oops, too late that ones already been sold.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I'm going to need some Libyan plutonium to test it.

No dude, only plutonium supplied by a genuine Libyan will work. Maybe if u have a Mr. Fusion handy.

Answer 4

It stems from the iamgination of Steven Speilberg who inturn captured the imagination of millions with his back to the future series :) But as of now there is no such thing as fluxcapacitor but there are things called flux and capacitor :)

Answer 5

Not yet but in a few moments, history will have been re-written by a crazy scientist and it will come to light that he invented it on November 5th 1955. We'll also change as a result so brace yourselves people.......!

Answer 6

Flux is used to sweat copper pipe fittings and other jobs

Answer 7

The only control we have over M.M.F at the moment is distorting its shape or, if the source is electrical, snuffing it out.
When somebody gets this type of control we will be able to go to the moon without a firework.

Answer 8

Yes Read this

The flux capacitor is the fictitious core component of Doctor Emmett Brown's time traveling De Lorean DMC-12 in the 1985 movie Back to the Future, its two sequels, and the animated series. Brown states that the flux capacitor "is what makes time travel possible."


How it "works"
It is not made clear in the movie exactly how the flux capacitor works. It consists of a box with three small, flashing incandescent lamps arranged as a "Y", located above and behind the passenger's seat of the time machine. As the car nears 88 miles per hour, the light of the flux capacitor pulses faster until it has a steady stream of light. The stainless steel body of the De Lorean also has a beneficial effect on the "flux dispersal" as the capacitor activates, although Doc is interrupted before he can finish explaining it fully.

At the end of the third film in the series, when Doc Brown has converted a locomotive into a time machine, the flux capacitor is located on the front of the train, in place of the lamp.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
On November 5 1955, Doc came up with the idea of the flux capacitor after slipping off his toilet and bumping his head while standing on the toilet to hang a clock. The idea came to him in a vision he had after being knocked out.

In order to travel through time, the vehicle integrated with the flux capacitor needs to be travelling at 88 mph (141.6 km/h), and requires 1.21 gigawatts of power, originally supplied by a plutonium-powered nuclear reactor. However, during the time machine's third trip (from 1955 back to 1985), plutonium was not available, so a lightning rod was connected directly to the flux capacitor and was used while the vehicle sustained 88 mph. Plutonium was used once again for a trip forward in time at least 30 years, and at some point thereafter the plutonium reactor was replaced by a "Mr. Fusion" home energy generator from the future that was fueled by extracting hydrogen atoms from garbage.

The De Lorean once again came back to 1985 and proceeded to travel to 2015, where it was stolen and taken back to 1955 and returned back to 2015 without the Doc's knowledge. When they returned in 1985, they found it was a different present, so they traveled back to 1955 to fix the timeline. The De Lorean was again struck by lightning in the year 1955, this time by accident. The lightning created an overload and fried the time circuits, causing a random time to be selected which sent the De Lorean back to 1885. It was then hidden in the Delgado mine for 70 years, "... because suitable replacement parts will not be invented until 1947." This is presumably a reference to the invention of the transistor. It was recovered from the mine in 1955 and repaired by Doc Brown's 1955 counterpart, thus restoring it to working order. Since both gasoline and garbage were available, the next trip back to 1885 was performed under the car's own power.

Due to lack of gasoline and a broken fuel line, the De Lorean's final trip from 1885 to 1985 was partially powered by a steam locomotive pushing the vehicle up to 88 mph while using Mr. Fusion to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts required to activate the Flux Capacitor and break the Time barrier. At the very end of the third movie, Doc returns to 1985 in a time machine made from a train. This uses a flux capacitor that Doc was able to power using steam.

Spoilers end here.

"Jigowatt"
In the movie, the power required is pronounced "one point twenty-one jigowatts". Although this pronunciation of "gigawatt" was once considered the correct one, it is no longer the most common. (In addition, since Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale were unfamiliar with the term, they misspelled it in the script.) Because of this, a "jigowatt" will sometimes be referred to on Internet forums as a fictional unit or to make fun of someone's electrical knowledge. The spelling "jigowatt" is used in the novelizations of films 2 and 3. However, the book of the original film uses the correct spelling "gigawatt".


Electronics
The phrase "flux capacitor" has appeared in more serious contexts. US patent number 6084285 describes a "lateral flux capacitor having fractal-shaped perimeters." The idea being to make a capacitor in an integrated circuit, some of whose capacitance exists between two conductors on a single layer (hence, "lateral"). The device is not a lateral flux-capacitor but a lateral-flux capacitor.

Flux is commonly used in electronics and electromagnetic theory and application, but rarely in the context of a capacitor. In general terms, flux simply means the rate at which some quantity (such as electric charge) passes through a surface (e.g. charge flux). It is speculated that the movie terminology is used fictitiously to represent a new and unknown type of flux.

Answer 9

the flux capacitor is what makes time travel possible.the guy you seek is doc emmit brown.if you cant locate him then marty mcfly may well be able to help.i think the docs in 1885,so look for marty instead.

Answer 10

I know that this is a joke question, but...

There's a thing called flux, and a thing called a capacitor, but no such thing as a flux capacitor.