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Einstein.
He was a generally great guy and had very progressive social views, so it would be fun to talk to him about the current state of the world.
Also a lot of his theories around relativity and theories of quantum physics have been proven recently. It would be amazing to see his mind be blown when he realises both sides were right and what that means for how a theory of everything needs to look like.
Yeah I'd love to discuss just the world and life with him.
Curie would be fun too.
Keep Newton away from me. And wasn't hawking on the epstein island?
Everyone but that guy in the bottom right.
What a Bohr…
Tesla :-)
Leonardo to blow his mind and maybe make a time paradox
Tesla to explain to him that he really needs to take some financial advice because it's not about him, it's about people using his techniques.
Edison to punch in the face repeatedly for an hour
Probably Einstein, because he seems like an interesting dude beyond his physics. He liked philosophy, for example, and is one of the examples that I invoke when I argue that university level science education should involve more philosophy — Einstein wasn't an anomaly in this respect, but a good symbol for discussing how the practice of scientists doing philosophy seems to have waned over the 20th century.
He was also pro-socialism, and had sensible takes about how science isn't a universal solution to stuff, but a specialised tool that is good for some problems but not for others.
Related: those who enjoy long video essays may enjoy this one from an awesome ex-astrophysicist: Einstein Was a Socialist; Should We Care? (1h16m)
With Marie Curie but perhaps via zoom.
I was about to say one of them should be allowed 30h but hell yes
I'll take Richard Feynman for nine hours please.
I'd ask nikola tesla three times what he thinks about Tesla using his name for an inferior car that shouldn't even be a thing.
"This guy put my name on his shitty car company??"
The answer is Feynman
Me: So why did you kill the elephant
Edison: AC bad
Why does only "Leonardo" get the first name
Hawking. No chair.
I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby
"So, did you ever have any plans to build that helicopter thing you drew?"
"Chi sei? Dove sono? Come sono arrivato qui?"
"Sorry, what?"
You could use a phone to translate what people who speak in modern languages are saying, but I don't know how well it would translate to and from 15th century Italian.
Tesla but I'd just let him talk about Martha the whole time.
Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science. I'd also probably s his d because he's technically a dilf. 🫦
Seeing your answer made me go "oh damn, yeah, I can't believe I didn't say Turing in my answer (I chose Einstein), because he would definitely be my choice. I must've missed that he was on there. After going back up to check the image, I conclude that you cheated, because Turing wasn't an option :P
I'll allow it though, because it's a good answer
Oh, shoot, I forgot to check the image and went straight into horny goblin mode. Whoops. 😅
Tesla. From what I have heard, he was eccentric ( paranoid possibly? ) so it'd be fun to see if I could get him to think I'm some sort of government agent looking to stop him from doing what he does.
Carl Sagan
I miss Carl
Feynman, he's the one you can drink a beer with.
Though if I spoke German I would show up for Einsteins last 3 hours.
Newton
So that’s like 3 questions with Hawking.
God, I literally cannot choose. That list is probably my perfect list of scientific figures in history. Aside from Edison, he can burn in hell.
The only ones I might add would be Goodenough and Gauss.
Leonardo for sure! I want to know if his 4 hour cycle was true and how did he manage to do it. Did it actually helped with his studies, art and inventions?
Ok we can also talk about Mona if we have time.
Edit: I misread it. I read it as "you can talk to 3 of these"
Einstein – German and English
Hawking – English
Edison – English
Tesla – Serbocroatic
Curie – Polish
Newton – English
Feynman – English
da Vinci – Italian
Bohr – Danish
I‘d love to see the Tesla, Da Vinci and Einstein - all of them being incredibly smart but no one speaks the Same Language. Heck I think they’ll just switch to Latin to understand each other lol
Skłodowska-Curie also spoke Russian, French, English and likely German.
Tesla, to check on many mysteries (totally not to get actual death ray).
Or maybe Skłodowska-Curie, to get self radiated.
Or Bphr, for beer.
Leonardo.
I have a long held theory based on the history of the Mona Lisa (Being recognized as a genderswapped self portrait he literally entitled "the Happy one" carried around by the artist and gifted to his gay lover after death) that the artist was trans.
I would absolutely love to potentially verify this because the idea that one of the most famous paintings in the world has been a trans gender affirming portrait in plain sight of art historians this whole time with nobody cluing in and writing a proper paper about it - is just kind of the best.
Leonardo seems the most interesting of the bunch.
Artist, scientist, inventor, wizard appearance gay icon all in one package.
How about Tesla and Edison halfway thru I hold down Edison so Tesla can give him an ass whooping.
Are they time traveling to see me, or am I time traveling to see them?
Because if it's the latter, Hawking on June 28, 2009.
No love for my boy Newton?