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Edison. For 3 hours, in a padded room, where no-one can hear his screams.
The irony is at least three of these people would make you want to do this to them by the end while Edison was able to do what he did because he could hold a conversation
Very true.
With Marie Curie but perhaps via zoom.
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).
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.
Feynman 100% as a man of the scientific community, I love having someone draw ridiculous diagrams to teach even crazier things.
100%. Not only can he explain all this physics to an idiot like me, he’s got more stories than anybody there
Have you ever read his non science books like Surely You’re Joking Mr Feinman? They’re fun.
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
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.
Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science. I’d also probably s his d because he’s technically a dilf. 🫦
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”
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?
As far as ones who actually did things there I’m not sure that Hawking would have even been physically capable at a point where he was famous.
Hawking was such a feminist he didn’t want to see women get on their knees.
And he was so smart he figured out kids don’t have to!
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.
Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.
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?
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
Probably Edison but only to tell him how much of a fuckhead he will be remembered as.
As a biologist, I’m offended that there isn’t Darwin, nor Mayr, nor Lesquereux, nor Jay Gould nor Margulis.
So I take Leonardo. I also like to draw and paint. I would like to say Marie, but unfortunately I’m not immune to radiation.
My first thought was Marie pre or post radiation?
Lol
Feynman, mainly because he was an amazing professor and knows how to talk to people.
Einstein and Newton disliked people, so they would be terrible conversationslists outside their areas of expertise. I think that was true of Leonardo as well. Edison is also out because he was a dick.
You could absolutely blow leonardo’s mind away with modern knowledge such as “washing hands before performing surgery is good actually”
Feynman’s way overrated, though. Sure, he was a smart enough guy to land a job on Manhattan project and university prof afterwards, but the only reason people know him are the books written by batshit crazy groupies (he didn’t write any) and based on his elderly ramblings, so none of the stories in those are even remotely true.
I was going to say Feynman for the same reason. Outside his classes it sounds like the guy was a lot of fun to be around.
Yep, this is the guy who might be able to teach me something. The rest of then would be used to talking to their peers, which I am not.
einstein was an outspoken socialist though, so he clearly liked people on some level
