"So, did you ever have any plans to build that helicopter thing you drew?"
"Chi sei? Dove sono? Come sono arrivato qui?"
"Sorry, what?"
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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.
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.
To say he was a generally great guy really overlooks how awful he was to women. He was no doubt brilliant, but he had some very serious character flaws. And unfortunately, he had an echo chamber of peers and a rockstar celebrity status that only worked to reinforce his shitty behavior and backwards views. It's not super uncommon for brilliant people to be absolutely nightmares on a personal level. Imagine being an absolutely brilliant scientist that gets married only to be completely forbidden from science and the things you love, and then reduced to being a maid for a madman with tons of insanely particular demands.
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?
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Consent?
As if any of these people want to talk to ME for 3 hours?
Maybe Hawkings wheelchair battery died, and you are at the bus stop. What's he going to do? Say no? See, he would never say no.....because of the implication.
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
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
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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)
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The answer is Feynman
I'd go for Leonardo. The others - while I understand things at a basic level - I'd likely not be able to understand most of their fields.
Maybe Tesla but I'm not sure if the conversation would end up centered around some of the neat science stuff I could grasp or pigeons with laser-eyes ...
while I understand things at a basic level
... including Italian, right? Otherwise it could be a brief chat.
Ok... well we are discussing the fictive ability to speak with somebody who is dead. I'm assuming that whatever necromancy/chronomancy is involved included some sort of translation.
Hell, if it's necromancy then the only thing we might get out of poor Leo is a "cerveeeeeeelli" before he lunges across the table :-)
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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.
I'll take Richard Feynman for nine hours please.
Feynman didn't even write his books
Really? Only one woman? Marie Curie is my choice
3h in a room with her might put you over your annual allowed radiation limit though.
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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.
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Me: So why did you kill the elephant
Edison: AC bad
I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby
Tesla or Curie I think
Tesla :-)
Who's gonna tell Tesla what his name stands for now?
Tesla would be my answer just to help him sue Musk for using his namesake. I'm petty like that though..
Hawkings, how was Epstein island?
Where's Von Neumman?!
We need to get Euler in there as well!
Feynman because at least he'd talk on my level
Everyone but that guy in the bottom right.
What a Bohr…
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.
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.
How about Tesla and Edison halfway thru I hold down Edison so Tesla can give him an ass whooping.
Why does only "Leonardo" get the first name
That's the full name he had at birth.
He was an illegitimate child, his father, Ser Piero, acknowledged him later so he became Leonardo di ser Piero
"da Vinci" meaning "from Vinci" came later.
So Leonardo is accurate, calling him da Vinci is not
Newton, because he was a revolutionary thinker for his time & it would be most fulfilling to just show him the wonders of the modern world & see the excitement in his eyes. Their all way to smart for me to gain any scientific knowledge of value that others hadn't already, so might as well make Newtons day & show him some cool stuff.
Newton had massive social adjustment issues and deep religious convictions. I'm not so sure he would react well to the modern world.
I think Feynman would be interesting based on the videos of him I've seen. It probably also aligns best with where my knowledge is. Einstein is probably too theoretical and too much math I don't know (or have long forgotten in the decades since I learnt it).
I have zero Polish and my French is mostly forgotten so Curie is out, though she would be my second choice of those listed (I don't recall if she spoke English off-hand).
But we have so many "quotes" from Einstein. It would be fun to go one by one asking if he really said that.
Newton so we could talk about both being life-long virgins.
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