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.
Let's hear it, little lemmings.
Submitted 2 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Was that his famous time travel party?
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes. Would be rude to turn down an invitation.
Jarix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol
antsu@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
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.
ragas@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
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.
parricc@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
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?
phx@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
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.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Consent?
As if any of these people want to talk to ME for 3 hours?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To make it fair you should get extra time with hawking
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 day ago
To ask him what he saw on the island
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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.
ns1@feddit.uk 1 day ago
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
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
With Marie Curie perhaps via zoom.
m33@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
I was about to say one of them should be allowed 30h but hell yes
Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 8 hours ago
Feynman because at least he’d talk on my level
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Edison. For 3 hours, in a padded room, where no-one can hear his screams.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
The irony is at least three of these people would make you want to do this to them by the end while Edison was able to do what he did because he could hold a conversation
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Very true.
Maeve@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Tesla. I feel there's so much we don't know, let alone understand, about his ideas. Have we overly sane/crazy washed him?
genau@europe.pub 1 day ago
He was probably a bit crazy.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
True, but probably more interesting than Newton, who would just keep talking about god the whole time.
cynar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Maeve@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Look what Edison did. I don't blame him for not trusting how the business world works.
ClathrateG@hexbear.net 1 day ago
coo coo
huf@hexbear.net 1 day ago
both, i think
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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
randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The answer is Feynman
phx@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
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 …
Tweet@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
while I understand things at a basic level … including Italian, right? Otherwise it could be a brief chat.
phx@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
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 :-)
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I mean it will be three hours either way, even if your are shouting broken Spanish at him.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Agreed, Leonardo had that natural sense of curiosity and wonder that I can imagine being completely infectious.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Really? Only one woman? Marie Curie is my choice
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 18 hours ago
3h in a room with her might put you over your annual allowed radiation limit though.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
True, thanks for the heads-up
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Feynman, he was a blast to listen to
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science. I’d also probably s his d because he’s technically a dilf. 🫦
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Seeing your answer made me go "oh damn, yeah, I can’t believe I didn’t say Turing in my answer (I chose Einstein), because he would definitely be my choice. I must’ve missed that he was on there. After going back up to check the image, I conclude that you cheated, because Turing wasn’t an option :P
I’ll allow it though, because it’s a good answer
Lemminary@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Oh, shoot, I forgot to check the image and went straight into horny goblin mode. Whoops. 😅
laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Feynman didn’t even write his books
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
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)
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
pro-socialism
Some people really can’t say the C-word.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 19 hours ago
I mean, Socialism and Communism are different things. Regardless of one’s own personal perspective on the matter, it’s certainly plausible that someone could be in favour of socialism, but not communism (I can’t speak to Einstein’s views on communism specifically, given that much of what I know of his political views in this vein comes from his essay “Why Socialism?”. He may well have been a raging commie, but chose Socialism because he was aiming his piece at a particular audience.
stelelor@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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.
adhocfungus@midwest.social 1 day ago
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.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
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
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
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.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Interesting that he said that, given how much he dunks on philosophers.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
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.
drath@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
j_overgrens@feddit.nl 21 hours ago
While not exactly on par with Einstein, Newton or Tesla, he did win a Nobel prize and is considered a luminary quantum physicist.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You could absolutely blow leonardo’s mind away with modern knowledge such as “washing hands before surgery is good actually”
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’ll take Richard Feynman for nine hours please.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Feynman, over a beer, at a strip club.
Dicska@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll be the dancer. Just make sure I can hear your conversation.
Jarix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can I be the bartender also in earshot?
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Hawkings, how was Epstein island?
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.
MTK@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would need like a decade of prep to have any meaningful discussion with any of them 😅
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
See, I’d pick Feynman, and have him teach me bongos.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 day ago
He’d teach you sex, the man was a walking hardon.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
“Hey, I just raised you from the dead to talk to you. Fuck your physics, who’s the smart one now, huh??”
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“I have spare pockets if you want me to help carry your tubes”
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
sounds like 10/10 workplace harassment
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Probably Edison but only to tell him how much of a fuckhead he will be remembered as.
HiobsTriops@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
cynar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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).
lunarul@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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).
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
He had a good sense of humour when it was about how great he was. A bit of a notorious asshole in other regards.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
How, they’re all dead.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“So, did you ever have any plans to build that helicopter thing you drew?”
“Chi sei? Dove sono? Come sono arrivato qui?”
“Sorry, what?”
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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.