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"What is the best invention?"

In your Opinion what is the best invention ever and why?

Could it be the wheel, the phone, internet?

Discuss.

Beefcake wrote:
> Black holes have a limited sphere of influence, so there is a boundary
> (like the coast where sea meets land) at which the gravitational pull
> is sufficient to hold light (in orbit) but not strong enough to
> attract it closer (like the relationship between our Sun and the
> Earth).


Moving in a certain way relative to light doesn't mean you're going back in time any more than a lorry overtaking you on the motorway means your car is in reverse.

IMO, of course...

Best invention is a toilet...seriously.

Black holes have a limited sphere of influence, so there is a boundary (like the coast where sea meets land) at which the gravitational pull is sufficient to hold light (in orbit) but not strong enough to attract it closer (like the relationship between our Sun and the Earth).

As I have said it is only theoreticaly possible to time travel within this boundary and you would never actually "get anywhere". So it would be pointless though possible.

Must stop typing it's hard to type with a spoon in your mouth as a "key presser".

Beefcake, I'm stunned that you can type with your arms strpped across your chest.

How can you travel back in time? The event horizoon stuff is based on over-enthusiastic theory. Black holes suck everything into them, the pull is sufficient to pull in even light. go near one, and you don't time travel, you get sucked in and squished into nothing. The only travelling you'll be doing after that is on the spiritual plane of existence.

I am fully prepared to accept that travel into the future is possible (which is to mean that it is possible to slow time in a controlled environment, so as to those inside, the world outside is moving at an accelerated rate).

Time travel is possible on the Event Horizon of Black Holes: this is where the gravitational pull is no longer sufficient to attract light.

Relativity is in a state of flux and perpetual chaos here and in theory one can travel back and forward in time, within this horizon. However you would also be stuck in an eternal time loop which you could never escape.

So I'm not going to try it out.

However Time Machines are not feasible and I will have to focus my research elsewhere.

I have a brilliant contraption that turns the baser elements like lead into gold!!

Insane Bartender wrote:
> time travel into the past is impossible......................


Either that, or the time machine is the best invention ever. Of course, if i told anyone about mine, they'd go back and 'invent' it before me.
So this one'll stay between me and al gore. :O)

the increased number of stops allows you to contemplate the meaning of the previous sentence before you move on to do other things.

why so many full stops?

Beefcake wrote:
> However once I have perfected my Time Machine, I'll be claiming to
> have invented everything. Just like the Amercians do now...


time travel into the past is impossible......................

Totoro wrote:
> Best invention ever:
> Either fire or Roger Moore

Ok. Fire was a DISCOVERY as it has existed before man and is a natural occurance.

And Roger Moore is a biological being, though you could argue its his parents invention...

Now admit that your wrong....