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Feynman because at least he’d talk on my level
Bohr
Feynman, he was a blast to listen to
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.
Feynman didn’t even write his books
Hawkings, how was Epstein island?
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?
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 left his wife for his much younger nurse. Then, 20 years later, he left her for another much younger nurse. Proving that not only does nature abhor a vacuum, but that some people are only happy when someone else is doing the sucking.
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!
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 :-)
I mean it will be three hours either way, even if your are shouting broken Spanish at him.
Agreed, Leonardo had that natural sense of curiosity and wonder that I can imagine being completely infectious.
Where’s Von Neumman?!
We need to get Euler in there as well!
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.
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.
True, thanks for the heads-up
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.
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
With Marie Curie but perhaps via zoom.
I was about to say one of them should be allowed 30h but hell yes
hawking may try to finger you.
I may let him.
