I know its the part on the car in back to the future, . . .but is it a real thing?
2007-03-06 13:14:30 · 4 answers · asked by JessALEX 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
No, it is a made up time traveling device.
2007-03-06 13:21:31 · answer #1 · answered by heavy_cow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They did the same thing Star Trek did and most other Sci-Fi movies do. When posed with a problem that needs to use something to have an event to occur and no such device exist - invent your own.
When star trek needed a way to get people from the ship to the surface of the planet - without running a shuttle ( not very futuristic) they invented " The Transporter" so a flux capacitator is the invention of a Sci - Fi writter.
Tell me, how many people you know of woutd be sitting in a car that has this Flux Capacitator right behind them, generating 1.21 Gigawatts and what about the electric field this would generate - but yet the watches still work properly. Hmmmmm...defies science ...oh yeah, that is the true definition of Sci-Fi ( to defy science and play in the land of make believe).
2007-03-06 13:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry, a flux capacitor is an imaginary electronic part. A capacitor is a real electronic part, but it can't alter the space/time continuum.
Look on the bright side, without capacitors, you would not be on-line.
2007-03-06 13:23:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It was made up for the movie. However, 1.21 Gigawatts is a real number - an insane amount of electricity.
2007-03-06 13:22:10 · answer #4 · answered by unquenchablefire666 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋