Anonymous Report This Comment Date: February 27, 2006 10:56PM
in english please?
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: February 28, 2006 12:57AM
taken from [
en.wikipedia.org]
The flux capacitor is the core component of Dr. Brown's fictional time traveling
De Lorean in the popular 1985 movie Back to the Future, its two sequels, and its
animated series. We learn from Doc Brown that the flux capacitor "is what
makes time travel possible."
Because of its popularity, the flux capacitor has been adopted by various
science fiction authors who did not wish to explain time travel, similar to the
way writers have used Isaac Asimov's positronic brain in robots.
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 De Lorean
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 steam
train into a time machine, the flux capacitor is located on the front of the
train, in place of the lamp....
Although "flux capacitor" is a fictitious term, the phrase 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
zxz555 Report This Comment Date: February 28, 2006 10:51AM
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shaDEz Report This Comment Date: February 28, 2006 12:17PM
somehow i knew that was coming, lol
