Tesla or Curie I think
Let's hear it, little lemmings.
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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JetpackJackson@feddit.org 7 months ago
Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Feynman because at least he’d talk on my level
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Bohr
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hawkings, how was Epstein island?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Feynman, he was a blast to listen to
Zaptosis@monero.town 7 months ago
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.
Tinidril@midwest.social 7 months ago
Newton had massive social adjustment issues and deep religious convictions. I’m not so sure he would react well to the modern world.
Zaptosis@monero.town 6 months ago
Then if not for fulfillment at least I’ll have an entertaining time
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 months ago
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).
im_me_but_better@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
But we have so many “quotes” from Einstein. It would be fun to go one by one asking if he really said that.
Alloi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
hawking may try to finger you.
Tinidril@midwest.social 7 months ago
I may let him.
garlicandonions@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Where’s Von Neumman?!
HereIAm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We need to get Euler in there as well!
laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Feynman didn’t even write his books
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Consent?
As if any of these people want to talk to ME for 3 hours?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Really? Only one woman? Marie Curie is my choice
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 7 months ago
3h in a room with her might put you over your annual allowed radiation limit though.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 7 months ago
True, thanks for the heads-up
bbb@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Newton so we could talk about both being life-long virgins.
phx@lemmy.ca 7 months 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 7 months ago
while I understand things at a basic level … including Italian, right? Otherwise it could be a brief chat.
phx@lemmy.ca 7 months 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 7 months ago
I mean it will be three hours either way, even if your are shouting broken Spanish at him.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Agreed, Leonardo had that natural sense of curiosity and wonder that I can imagine being completely infectious.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Who’s gonna tell Tesla what his name stands for now?
Jela@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Tesla would be my answer just to help him sue Musk for using his namesake. I’m petty like that though…
neuroneiro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everyone but that guy in the bottom right.
What a Bohr…
richardmtanguay@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Tesla :-)
ragas@lemmy.ml 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 7 months 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
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Hawking. No chair.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I’ll take Richard Feynman for nine hours please.
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Me: So why did you kill the elephant
Edison: AC bad
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 months 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 7 months ago
pro-socialism
Some people really can’t say the C-word.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 months 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.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Why does only “Leonardo” get the first name
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s the full name he had at birth.
He was an illegitimate child, his father, Ser Piero, acknowledged him later so he became Leonardo di ser Piero “da Vinci” meaning “from Vinci” came later.
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tesla but I’d just let him talk about Martha the whole time.
randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
The answer is Feynman
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months 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 7 months ago
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 months ago
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
With Marie Curie perhaps via zoom.
m33@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I was about to say one of them should be allowed 30h but hell yes
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
einstein because he was an outspoken socialist