DAMMIT FUTURE..... WHERE'S MY HOVERBOARD?
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The year is 1989 (Iβm 10 years old) and there is a buzz in the school playground. My friend has just told me that he went to the cinema that weekend and watched βBack to the Future Part IIβ, and that hoverboards were now a real thing. As I grew older and the magic began to fade I realised that in order to keep the dream alive I was going to have to put my faith in future inventors, primarily Doc Brown! 34 years later and Iβm still waiting βΉ
Within the confines of our current technological limits we have not yet seen that anti-gravity device, and probably never will if βGeneral Relativityβ has anything to say about it. The best contender so far has been the βAir Boardβ, created and piloted by Franky Zapata, achieving a Guiness World Record in 2016 for covering a distance of just over 2,252 meters! Unfortunately though this uses jet engines to keep itself up; hardly the clean efficient tech we remember from the movie!
Unfortunately the dream was very much alive with Newton, classing gravity as a force. That was until Einstein came along and proved that gravity wasnβt a force and was in fact a result of spacetime geometry. Theoretical quantum physicists have postulated over the existence of a quantum gravity particle, the graviton, but are currently nowhere near finding it last time I checked βΉ
So, my question to you guys. Can any of you lend me some ideas on how I can go about building my own hoverboard? π
The year is 1989 (Iβm 10 years old) and there is a buzz in the school playground. My friend has just told me that he went to the cinema that weekend and watched βBack to the Future Part IIβ, and that hoverboards were now a real thing. As I grew older and the magic began to fade I realised that in order to keep the dream alive I was going to have to put my faith in future inventors, primarily Doc Brown! 34 years later and Iβm still waiting βΉ
Within the confines of our current technological limits we have not yet seen that anti-gravity device, and probably never will if βGeneral Relativityβ has anything to say about it. The best contender so far has been the βAir Boardβ, created and piloted by Franky Zapata, achieving a Guiness World Record in 2016 for covering a distance of just over 2,252 meters! Unfortunately though this uses jet engines to keep itself up; hardly the clean efficient tech we remember from the movie!
Unfortunately the dream was very much alive with Newton, classing gravity as a force. That was until Einstein came along and proved that gravity wasnβt a force and was in fact a result of spacetime geometry. Theoretical quantum physicists have postulated over the existence of a quantum gravity particle, the graviton, but are currently nowhere near finding it last time I checked βΉ
So, my question to you guys. Can any of you lend me some ideas on how I can go about building my own hoverboard? π
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Mar 05, 2024 09:46AM
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