I pick the tenth option: yo momma. Except we don't talk.

Hmmm tough choice. I doubt I would be able to understand DaVinci or Newton. I would prefer to berate Edison. I wouldn't want Curie to irradiate me. Tesla was awesome but kind of nutty. I didn't know Enough about Bohr. So probably Feyman or Einstein. I read Feyman's book so I think I would have a lot to talk about. But I think the win would go to Einstein for me. I just have to know how he came up with it all by just sort of thinking about it. I would hope he would have the best chance of explaining it in a way I could understand. Plus I speak German, so if all else fails we can just talk about spetzle.

I think Tesla. I want to ask him about a bunch of the rumors and conspiracy theories about him. I'm sure almost all of them are bogus, but I'd love to know.

My son picked Einstein. He's curious what his last words were.

God, I literally cannot choose. That list is probably my perfect list of scientific figures in history. Aside from Edison, he can burn in hell.

The only ones I might add would be Goodenough and Gauss.

Edit: I misread it. I read it as "you can talk to 3 of these"

Einstein – German and English

Hawking – English

Edison – English

Tesla – Serbocroatic

Curie – Polish

Newton – English

Feynman – English

da Vinci – Italian

Bohr – Danish

I‘d love to see the Tesla, Da Vinci and Einstein - all of them being incredibly smart but no one speaks the Same Language. Heck I think they’ll just switch to Latin to understand each other lol

Probably Leonardo. I'd love to hear him recount how many models he fucked while wearing his signature bandana

Leonardo.

I have a long held theory based on the history of the Mona Lisa (Being recognized as a genderswapped self portrait he literally entitled "the Happy one" carried around by the artist and gifted to his gay lover after death) that the artist was trans.

I would absolutely love to potentially verify this because the idea that one of the most famous paintings in the world has been a trans gender affirming portrait in plain sight of art historians this whole time with nobody cluing in and writing a proper paper about it - is just kind of the best.

none; boring AF.

Which one has more therapist training? 😂

Carl Sagan

Feynman, he's the one you can drink a beer with.

Though if I spoke German I would show up for Einsteins last 3 hours.

Da Vinci, I will show him modern technology and get his opinion. Actually I'd just show him planes and tanks.

Leonardo for sure! I want to know if his 4 hour cicle was true and how did he manage to do it. Did it actually helped with his studies, art and inventions?

Ok we can also talk about Mona if we have time.

Tesla, to check on many mysteries (totally not to get actual death ray).

Or maybe Skłodowska-Curie, to get self radiated.

Or Bphr, for beer.

So that’s like 3 questions with Hawking.

"So, did you ever have any plans to build that helicopter thing you drew?"

"Chi sei? Dove sono? Come sono arrivato qui?"

"Sorry, what?"

Tesla. let's talk about the bird.

No love for my boy Newton?

Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science. I'd also probably s his d because he's technically a dilf. 🫦

Tesla. From what I have heard, he was eccentric ( paranoid possibly? ) so it'd be fun to see if I could get him to think I'm some sort of government agent looking to stop him from doing what he does.

With Marie Curie but perhaps via zoom.

I'd ask nikola tesla three times what he thinks about Tesla using his name for an inferior car that shouldn't even be a thing.

The answer is Feynman

Probably Einstein, because he seems like an interesting dude beyond his physics. He liked philosophy, for example, and is one of the examples that I invoke when I argue that university level science education should involve more philosophy — Einstein wasn't an anomaly in this respect, but a good symbol for discussing how the practice of scientists doing philosophy seems to have waned over the 20th century.

He was also pro-socialism, and had sensible takes about how science isn't a universal solution to stuff, but a specialised tool that is good for some problems but not for others.

Related: those who enjoy long video essays may enjoy this one from an awesome ex-astrophysicist: Einstein Was a Socialist; Should We Care? (1h16m)

I'll take Richard Feynman for nine hours please.

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

Why does only "Leonardo" get the first name

Tesla :-)

Everyone but that guy in the bottom right.

What a Bohr…

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 ...

Who's gonna tell Tesla what his name stands for now?