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 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Was that his famous time travel party?
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes. Would be rude to turn down an invitation.
Jarix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
my hovercraft is full of eels
“hovercraft for fishing? i must see this!”
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To make it fair you should get extra time with hawking
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
To ask him what he saw on the island
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I spoke with Mr Baumel, socially for instance, on a few occasions.
He carries on two conversations actively, about completely unrelated subjects, and can speak with authority on any of them in turn. And he’s listening to another conversation so if economics of late Sumeria or gauges of railways in Europe vs China get boring to him, he can ditch one and talk about artwork of early Iceland as vikings adapted their style with the change in local materials; or something.
It’s dizzying to hear. He’s just not on our level.
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
He was probably a bit crazy.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
True, but probably more interesting than Newton, who would just keep talking about god the whole time.
cynar@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Look what Edison did. I don't blame him for not trusting how the business world works.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
i feel like the covers have ended up like star trek tech, made up nonsense but it gave people ideas that turned out to be good
ClathrateG@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
coo coo
huf@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
both, i think
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Edison. For 3 hours, in a padded room, where no-one can hear his screams.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Very true.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Feynman, over a beer, at a strip club.
Dicska@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ll be the dancer. Just make sure I can hear your conversation.
Jarix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can I be the bartender also in earshot?
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
“I have spare pockets if you want me to help carry your tubes”
alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
sounds like 10/10 workplace harassment
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably Edison but only to tell him how much of a fuckhead he will be remembered as.
stelelor@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You could absolutely blow leonardo’s mind away with modern knowledge such as “washing hands before surgery is good actually”
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Interesting that he said that, given how much he dunks on philosophers.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
einstein was an outspoken socialist though, so he clearly liked people on some level
drath@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
While not exactly on par with Einstein, Newton or Tesla, he did win a Nobel prize and is considered a luminary quantum physicist.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
HiobsTriops@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
How, they’re all dead.
essell@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gonna be a one sided conversation for sure.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You’ll be the smartest person in the room (graveyard) as their brains have rotted away and you will win any discussion. They’ll have nothing to challenge your arguments. I don’t think this will have any scientific value though. Except maybe from a psychological perspective, as you’re an idiot trying to argue with a grave.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Feynman. Dude must have some crazy stories. Seriously, who cares about science?
mholiv@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
4grams@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
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.
outerspace@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Good video
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Have you ever read his non science books like Surely You’re Joking Mr Feinman? They’re fun.
Cenotaph@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
100%. Not only can he explain all this physics to an idiot like me, he’s got more stories than anybody there
4grams@awful.systems 3 weeks ago
Agreed, not the person I respect 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.
beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Feynman 100% as a man of the scientific community, I love having someone draw ridiculous diagrams to teach even crazier things.
MTK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would need like a decade of prep to have any meaningful discussion with any of them 😅
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
See, I’d pick Feynman, and have him teach me bongos.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
He’d teach you sex, the man was a walking hardon.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
“Hey, I just raised you from the dead to talk to you. Fuck your physics, who’s the smart one now, huh??”
ragas@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
With Marie Curie perhaps via zoom.
m33@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I was about to say one of them should be allowed 30h but hell yes
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Davinci for sure because of the breadth of genius and imagination seems more approachable to a casual conversation, plus history has less on him.
Other’s have so much depth in their fields that I wouldn’t be able to converse intelligently on anything they are famous for. Having a chat with Feynman would be my second choice because his talks to laymen audiences are quite good.
A pint or five with either would be fun.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science. I’d also probably s his d because he’s technically a dilf. 🫦
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I’d let DaVinci hit my vape
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Consent?
As if any of these people want to talk to ME for 3 hours?
randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The answer is Feynman
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
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.SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tesla. Gotta know about the death ray.
bazzett@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 weeks 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)
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.
Adalast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
antsu@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks 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.