Leonard Euler. He invented the basis for all of their works, besides Newton and Leonardo I guess.
Let's hear it, little lemmings.
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glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
4grams@awful.systems 1 month ago
Xcellent choice, would be amazing, a perfect pick. I’d toss Riemann or Ramanujan into the mix if I could pick anyone and ignore the language barrier.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Didn’t Ramanujan write to a Cambridge professor? His English would be great. Colonial India—a lot of elites would’ve had knowledge of English.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Leonhard Euler, without a doubt.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Ask him to help you move a sofa.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Curie looks tired. If I’m gonna embarrass myself with anyone anyway, I’ll invite her and we’ll have a relaxing cup of herb tea at least.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’ll take Richard Feynman for nine hours please.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Seems like it will be a one sided conversation. They’re all dead.
Gustephan@lemmy.world 1 month 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
phx@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
while I understand things at a basic level … including Italian, right? Otherwise it could be a brief chat.
phx@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
I mean it will be three hours either way, even if your are shouting broken Spanish at him.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Agreed, Leonardo had that natural sense of curiosity and wonder that I can imagine being completely infectious.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Tesla. From what I have heard, he may have been a little eccentric ( paranoid even? ) 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.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Really? Only one woman? Marie Curie is my choice
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 1 month ago
3h in a room with her might put you over your annual allowed radiation limit though.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True, thanks for the heads-up
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 month ago
Skłodowska-Curie also spoke Russian, French, English and likely German.
angrystego@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did Tesla speak no second language?
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh my bad, he spoke 7 languages. Please add Czech, Hungarian, Latin, German, Italian, French and English.
God that man was smart
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Take some iodine pills before you talk to her.
unconsequential@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Hedy Lamar and Mileva Marić-Einstein
laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Feynman didn’t even write his books
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Me: So why did you kill the elephant
Edison: AC bad
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby
DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 month ago
Leonardo seems the most interesting of the bunch.
Artist, scientist, inventor, wizard appearance gay icon all in one package.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Literally a Renaissance man.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 month ago
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.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 1 month 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 1 month ago
Could I even formulate a coherent sentence?
Do you speak Italian? Or maybe Latin.
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 1 month 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?
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“What did you do on Epstein Island, Steven?”
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Studied young black holes.
kureta@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
God dammit!
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Feynman, he was a blast to listen to
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who’s gonna tell Tesla what his name stands for now?
Jela@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Tesla would be my answer just to help him sue Musk for using his namesake. I’m petty like that though…
richardmtanguay@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Tesla :-)
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Feynman, he’s the one you can drink a beer with.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Leonardo. We both are AuDHD so it’ll be a semi-productive 3 hours.
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
i would imagine interview with leonardo could help historians quite a lot.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 1 month ago
Feels like there is an imposter between those eight scientific greats
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Damn pigeonfucker.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’m speaking of the elephant killer
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
You don’t get to pick 3. Which is the top one?
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 month 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
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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 1 month ago
That’s why I went to have Feynman step in for me and I’ll just sit quietly in the corner listening