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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.
Was that his famous time travel party?
Yes. Would be rude to turn down an invitation.
Lol
To make it fair you should get extra time with hawking
To ask him what he saw on the island
I am by no means excusing anything. In fact, Feynman, Einstein and Edison have their issues too.
Bohr, was Dutch…
Leonardo was left handed?
Anyway Marie Curie would be at least as interesting to talk to as any of them, just maybe bring personal dosimeter for peace of mind.
“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.
Edison. For 3 hours, in a padded room, where no-one can hear his screams.
Feynman, over a beer, at a strip club.
I’ll be the dancer. Just make sure I can hear your conversation.
Can I be the bartender also in earshot?
Probably Edison but only to tell him how much of a fuckhead he will be remembered as.
I would need like a decade of prep to have any meaningful discussion with any of them 😅
See, I’d pick Feynman, and have him teach me bongos.
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?
Feynman. Dude must have some crazy stories. Seriously, who cares about science?
Why? He was relatively contemporary and lived a pretty normal life relative to most of us compared to the historical figures.
That and he was a mega sexist who made the lives of women in science much worse for literal decades.
Have you ever read his non science books like Surely You’re Joking Mr Feinman? They’re fun.
100%. Not only can he explain all this physics to an idiot like me, he’s got more stories than anybody there
Hawking was probably way more familiar with the works, achievements and maybe even personal anecdotes of everyone in this post than I could ever hope to be. Thus, sitting down with him feels like the best deal.
He could give lectures, but the computer massively slowed conversations. He also apparently had a bit of a temper. Some of his colleagues took to wearing steel toe cap shoes because of him (electric wheelchairs are heavy).
Exactly what I was thinking. Plus he seemed to have a good sense of humor too. But on the other hand, it would take him much longer to respond to questions on the spot (usually he’d prepare answers ahead of time for interviews and such).
He had a good sense of humour when it was about how great he was. A bit of a notorious asshole in other regards.
How, they’re all dead.
Gonna be a one sided conversation for sure.
You’ll be the smartest person in the room (graveyard) as their brains have rotted away and you will win any discussion. They’ll have nothing to challenge your arguments. I don’t think this will have any scientific value though. Except maybe from a psychological perspective, as you’re an idiot trying to argue with a grave.
Marie Curie three times and Imma sit real close to her so I can check out early and miss a whole lot of what’s currently going on.
“I have spare pockets if you want me to help carry your tubes”
Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.
Tesla. Gotta know about the death ray.
And the pidgeon too!
Tell me more about this pigeon.
As far as I know, Tesla never had any relationship, that is, with a human. But at some point he got obsessed with pidgeons and the story goes that he fell in love with one. But I don’t remember many details anymore, or the veracity of it. So take it with a grain of salt.
Darwin
He also had an earthquake machine iirc
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.
