Feynman. Dude must have some crazy stories. Seriously, who cares about science?
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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
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:
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.
No Turing?
I would love the chance to make fun of Feynman for 3 hours
Feel like I would just disappoint 3 different people. What a cruel thing to bring someone back from the dead for.
That's why I went to have Feynman step in for me and I'll just sit quietly in the corner listening
Even putting aside the science, Einstein just seems like he was a really good dude. I feel like he'd be a chill person to hang with.
Yes exactly. Plus he was literally a socialist. I think I’d enjoy chatting with him the most.
I'd almost be worried about being disappointed. He has been portrayed very favorably. Was he really like that though...
He was an outspoken civil rights advocate, even back in the 1940s. Seems like a pretty rad dude to me.
None. I give my spot to someone who wouldn't waste it.
I can't speak on their level, and I'm okay with that. I've worked around some absolutely amazing geniuses in my career and I'm happy to be the worker bees in the arrangement. I'm no slouch, and I've done my own share of really cool stuff, but I wouldn't waste such an opportunity on me.
Give it to the Steve Baumels, the Tomas Bartas and the Jeff Linds of the world, the unsung bright spots in our tech march forward.
I'll save everyone a spot at lunch and try to get in on the group photo.
This was my first thought as well, sadly I'm probably not clever enough to fully appreciate and understand any of these people. If I'm not allowed to transfer my place then at least I can have some fun telling Da Vinci about planes and stuff
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i would imagine interview with leonardo could help historians quite a lot.
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
Curie three times. Her work was so groundbreaking that she got name recognition on the same level as the rest of them as a woman in the late 1800s. Based on my experiences with modern women in stem, I'd expect she worked way harder to get where she did than any of the rest of them and as such I'd expect her insight to hold a lot more value. I'd pick Pierre too if he was also on the list
Leonardo. We both are AuDHD so it'll be a semi-productive 3 hours.
Seems like it will be a one sided conversation. They're all dead.
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.
Lol
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.
"Hey, I just raised you from the dead to talk to you. Fuck your physics, who's the smart one now, huh??"
Bohr, for sure.
I've read Feynman's biography, which, for the record, I would not recommend to everyone.
But he's witnessed Einstein and all of these early physics luminaries, and by his memorable account, everybody was in awe of Bohr, and Bohr only.
So I'd like to hear what the ruckus was about.
Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.
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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.
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