{"id":79152,"date":"2018-05-28T18:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/scientists-invented-a-real-life-flux-capacitor-but-not-for-time-travel"},"modified":"2018-05-28T18:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:42:42","slug":"scientists-invented-a-real-life-flux-capacitor-but-not-for-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/scientists-invented-a-real-life-flux-capacitor-but-not-for-time-travel","title":{"rendered":"Scientists invented a real-life flux capacitor, but not for time travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R2Q9wWf8h2w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/07\/17\/back-to-the-future-to-celebrate-30th-anniversary-in-cinemas\/\"><em>Back to the Future<\/em><\/a> over the holiday weekend and wished the flux capacitor was a real thing so you could travel through time, we have sorta good news. Scientists from Australia and Switzerland have proposed a real-life flux capacitor \u2014 but you won\u2019t be able to travel back to a high school dance in the \u201950s with it.<\/p>\n<p>The device is a new type of electronic circulator, which can control the directional movement of microwave signals. The scientists, who published their research in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.120.213602\">Physical Review Letters,<\/a><\/em> have proposed two different potential circuits \u2014 one of them borrows the design of the three-pointed flux capacitor Doc Brown and Marty McFly used to travel to 1955 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/10\/21\/back-to-the-future-2-fiction-vs-reality\/\">and 2015<\/a> in their DeLorean.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" data-credit=\"Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies\" data-mep=\"2708957\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invented-a-real-life-flux-capacitor-but-not-for-time-travel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/05\/28\/flux-capacitor-back-to-the-future-quantum-computing\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/05\/28\/flux-capacitor-back-to-t...computing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you watched Back to the Future over the holiday weekend and wished the flux capacitor was a real thing so you could travel through time, we have sorta good news. Scientists from Australia and Switzerland have proposed a real-life flux capacitor \u2014 but you won\u2019t be able to travel back to a high school [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}