Feynman hands down also we get to play the bongos
Let's hear it, little lemmings.
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 8 months ago
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 8 months ago
If I wanted three hours of being reminded that I’m not the sharpest tack in the box, I can just go talk to my wife.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.
MTK@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I would need like a decade of prep to have any meaningful discussion with any of them 😅
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
See, I’d pick Feynman, and have him teach me bongos.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 8 months ago
He’d teach you sex, the man was a walking hardon.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
“Hey, I just raised you from the dead to talk to you. Fuck your physics, who’s the smart one now, huh??”
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 8 months 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.agavaa@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why wouldn’t you recommend it to everyone?
Jarix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I would like to have a conversation with Leonardo, Newton and Eisntein, but I would like to be an additive never and may Feynman actually have the conversation with them
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Seems like it will be a one sided conversation. They’re all dead.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Can you give it away ? If so, can you divide the time ?
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Was that his famous time travel party?
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes. Would be rude to turn down an invitation.
Jarix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lol
bazzett@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My first thought was Marie pre or post radiation?
Lol
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
Leonardo. We both are AuDHD so it’ll be a semi-productive 3 hours.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Curie three times. Her work was so groundbreaking that she got name recognition on the same level as the rest of them as a woman in the late 1800s. Based on my experiences with modern women in stem, I’d expect she worked way harder to get where she did than any of the rest of them and as such I’d expect her insight to hold a lot more value. I’d pick Pierre too if he was also on the list
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
i would imagine interview with leonardo could help historians quite a lot.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 months 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 8 months 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 7 months 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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Feel like I would just disappoint 3 different people. What a cruel thing to bring someone back from the dead for.
Jarix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s why I went to have Feynman step in for me and I’ll just sit quietly in the corner listening
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Tesla, I want to know all he knows.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
clearly leonardo
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Feynman. Dude must have some crazy stories. Seriously, who cares about science?
4grams@awful.systems 8 months 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.
mholiv@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
Good video
beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Feynman 100% as a man of the scientific community, I love having someone draw ridiculous diagrams to teach even crazier things.
Cenotaph@mander.xyz 8 months ago
100%. Not only can he explain all this physics to an idiot like me, he’s got more stories than anybody there
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 8 months ago
Have you ever read his non science books like Surely You’re Joking Mr Feinman? They’re fun.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 8 months ago
Feels like there is an imposter between those eight scientific greats
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Damn pigeonfucker.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 8 months ago
I’m speaking of the elephant killer
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 months ago
I’d let DaVinci hit my vape
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months ago
I’d share a blunt with Sagan.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
With how blitzed he always seemed, I don’t know that any mere mortal could handle what he was rolling…
shneancy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Davinci, Einstein, and Skłodowska-Curie
i want to have a walk with Davinci and see how he sees the world
i want to vibe with Einstein and see how well we click (i think he’d be a good friend)
and i want to chillout with Skłodowka-Curie and chat in Polish about stuff
i like science, but i’m nowhere near a level where i could make a conversation about their passions they’d find interesting, so i’m happy to listen and see their mind work
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 months ago
You don’t get to pick 3. Which is the top one?
shneancy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
oh dang i misread the prompt. hmmm, well, if i can understand Davinci’s Italian then him, if not, then Skłodowska-Curie. though we have many Davinci’s journals time is time, things get misplaced, lost, forgotten, i’d love to know if he’s written something nobody’s ever found. Skłodowska-Curie as amazing as she is has written down all of her work, no mystery there
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d happily chat with Marie Curie for 3 hours while Einstein and Bohr argue with each other in the background.
potoo22@programming.dev 8 months ago
Take some iodine pills before you talk to her.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
No Turing?
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Edison. For 3 hours, in a padded room, where no-one can hear his screams.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 months 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 8 months ago
Very true.
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
As an art and anatomy person DaVinci of course!! („ಡωಡ„) Could I even formulate a coherent sentence? Who knows! Surely he has somthing we could cut up and poke around in if words fail… Or just to see him work on whatever, Oh man, what a dream.
lunarul@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Could I even formulate a coherent sentence?
Do you speak Italian? Or maybe Latin.
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I don’t, (I speak spanish though, so that could do?) but I was actually just imagining being like… Star struck and nervous? Ha. But I would make it work either way. maybe we could communicate through drawing . Imagine sketching for him like… Idk a mecha suit, or some sci fi stuff… Or drawing a dinosaur or a microbe or something.out of the scope of the science at the time. what would he come up in return?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 months 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.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Also he’s the oldest and not much of his ideas are retained.
silasmariner@programming.dev 8 months ago
I don’t speak medieval Italian so sadly he’s off my list
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Presumably if we figured out how to bring back the dead and thoroughly decomposed, we could solve the language barrier.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
How, they’re all dead.
essell@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gonna be a one sided conversation for sure.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months 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.
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I would love the chance to make fun of Feynman for 3 hours
CubitOom@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Leonardo so I can tell him “Non capisco l’italiano”.
stelelor@lemmy.ca 8 months 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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
einstein was an outspoken socialist though, so he clearly liked people on some level
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
While not exactly on par with Einstein, Newton or Tesla, he did win a Nobel prize and is considered a luminary quantum physicist.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 months 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 8 months ago
Interesting that he said that, given how much he dunks on philosophers.
adhocfungus@midwest.social 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago
You could absolutely blow leonardo’s mind away with modern knowledge such as “washing hands before surgery is good actually”