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 ...
while I understand things at a basic level
... including Italian, right? Otherwise it could be a brief chat.
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 :-)
Seems like it will be a one sided conversation. They're all dead.
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.
Hedy Lamar and Mileva Marić-Einstein
I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby
I'd happily chat with Marie Curie for 3 hours while Einstein and Bohr argue with each other in the background.
Feynman didn't even write his books
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.
Me: So why did you kill the elephant
Edison: AC bad
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.
Feels like there is an imposter between those eight scientific greats
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.
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
Hawkings, how was Epstein island?
So that’s like 3 questions with Hawking.
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.
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.
i would imagine interview with leonardo could help historians quite a lot.
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