I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby

Why does only "Leonardo" get the first name

Tesla. From what I have heard, he was eccentric ( paranoid possibly? ) 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.

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.

Carl Sagan

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.

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.

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.

Hawking. No chair.

Edit: I misread it. I read it as "you can talk to 3 of these"

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

Edison but instead of talking to him, I Rick Roll him for three hours.

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.

To make it fair you should get extra time with hawking

I would need like a decade of prep to have any meaningful discussion with any of them 😅

Edison. For 3 hours, in a padded room, where no-one can hear his screams.

Feynman, he's the one you can drink a beer with.

Though if I spoke German I would show up for Einsteins last 3 hours.

Leonardo for sure! I want to know if his 4 hour cycle was true and how did he manage to do it. Did it actually helped with his studies, art and inventions?

Ok we can also talk about Mona if we have time.

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.

So that’s like 3 questions with Hawking.

Tesla. I feel there's so much we don't know, let alone understand, about his ideas. Have we overly sane/crazy washed him?

Which one has more therapist training? 😂

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.

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.

Feynman, over a beer, at a strip club.