Newton

"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. 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.

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

Carl Sagan

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.

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.

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.

No love for my boy Newton?

Which one has more therapist training? 😂

Tesla. let's talk about the bird.

So that’s like 3 questions with Hawking.

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

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

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.

We can get to talk with any of them... like, it is a time machine to transport us into times when they were 5yo at their times? None said what age these persons would be.

Or maybe it is more like necromancy? yes please!

Probably the ones which worked in fields that advanced the most. Although I probably would not be able to explain shit.

None, I do not want tl chat with AI lol

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.

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.

Where's Hedy Lamarr?

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.

Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.

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

Does this interaction change history? If not, none of them.

I would need like a decade of prep to have any meaningful discussion with any of them 😅

none; boring AF.

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.

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.

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.

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.