Photo of hover board from Back to the Future
Bottom text:
SCIENTISTS
you have 3 years.
Room temp superconductors were recently in the news, although I don’t think they’ve made wire out of the material yet.
But quantum locking would keep the board on rails, and would not allow the rider to deviate from the path. Still cool, but not a hoverboard.
We also have hoverboards, but they are large, use thrust engines or propellers, and are horribly inefficient.
*Potential room temp superconductors that still require confirmation
ftfy. This is one of the “holy grails” in science, and there have been many claims to have achieved it that all turned out to be false under further investigation. Definitely take the most recent claims with a really big grain of salt, pending independent verification by other labs. Remember: if it can’t be independent reproduced, it isn’t meaningful.
Full disclosure, I didn’t read the article on the superconductors. I assumed it was another one of those “Oh, neat” scientific discoveries that wasn’t as exciting as journalists want it to be. I’d love to see it when it’s real, though.
Now they have -8 years.
Doc Brown actually went back and caused this invention to cease to exist, along with self-lacing shoes, the food hydrator, and the Mr. Fusion, in order to divert the timeline away from a looming nuclear apocalypse in the year 2045.
This is a thing that really happened… in a short released with the 30th Anniversary Blu-Ray box set.
physics matters.
So, 2016 didn’t have hover boards but they got the ubiquity of flat screen tvs correct.
