Scientists have not built the flux capacitor that powers Dr Emmett Brown’s time machine, the University of Queensland reports. However, researchers at UoQ, RMIT and ETH Zurich have “proposed a device which uses the quantum tunnelling of magnetic flux around a capacitor which they say can break time-reversal symmetry.” Everybody clear on that? In other news the Tardis has not landed at Saint Lucia.
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