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Can I pick 2 and have them talk to each other instead? Would love to watch Hawking get Newton up to speed on some stuff.
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.
Tesla. I feel there’s so much we don’t know, let alone understand, about his ideas. Have we overly sane/crazy washed him?
He was probably a bit crazy.
True, but probably more interesting than Newton, who would just keep talking about god the whole time.
and apples
Apparently he didn’t trust patents etc. He would come up with fanciful ideas, that sounded vaguely plausible, as cover for what he was actually working on.
At this point picking apart the Good, the bad and the cover is an …interesting exercise.
Look what Edison did. I don’t blame him for not trusting how the business world works.
Fully agree with that. Tesla got thoroughly screwed over.
both, i think. also, wasnt he a big showman who made up a lot of bullshit? i feel like his actual working inventions are all well understood
coo coo 🕊️
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?
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”
sounds like 10/10 workplace harassment
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.
Probably Edison but only to tell him how much of a fuckhead he will be remembered as.
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.
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.
I liked the part from his autobio where he recounts cracking safes open. Pretty fun stuff indeed. Less so the ones where he invents modern plastic and helps with the atom bomb
You could absolutely blow leonardo’s mind away with modern knowledge such as “washing hands before performing surgery is good actually”
Yeah I was just reading a book that mentioned something Feynman said and it’s something I feel is true for me as well.
Don’t remember word for word but it was something like “Any subject is interesting if you look deep enough.”
I feel like Feynman and I could have a riveting conversation about knitting for 3 hours even though neither of us are passionate about it.
Those are the people I want to talk to.
Interesting that he supposedly said that, given how much he dunks on philosophers.
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.
While not exactly on par with Einstein, Newton or Tesla, he did win a Nobel prize and is considered a luminary quantum physicist.
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.
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.
Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.
Same, but it’d be 3 hours of punching him in the dick.
I would need like a decade of prep to have any meaningful discussion with any of them 😅
“Hey, I just raised you from the dead to talk to you. Fuck your physics, who’s the smart one now, huh??”
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.
To be frank, if you put Angela on this list my answer would be her a thousand times over. Shes just so damn engaging, love her content.
Good video, knew what it was before clicking haha
@mholiv Feynman was a smart theoretical physicist, but popular he was in “public” for being an asshole, unfortunately.
Meaning: Feynman was surely popular among physicists, he did a lot of important work, but among public he was famous not for his work, but for normal stories like StreepClub :ablobcatpopcorn:
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
Agreed, not the person I respect the most or believe is going to reveal the most truth. But he’s the best one on the list to keep you engaged and entertained for 3 hours.
Feynman 100% as a man of the scientific community, I love having someone draw ridiculous diagrams to teach even crazier things.
