hoping this video is about hawking, I was super into him through his tv show about biology where I just accepted “physicists are just the best at all sciences, so I’d better be a physicist!”
All born on same month and day, but 1900? Or, all turn 18 in 1900? All a certain median age then? Presuppose parents had same inflation-adjusted wealth? Assume Elon not imprisoned because his behaviors now would land him in hot H2O in S Africa in 1900 legal codes?
Imagine sending Elon Musk back in time... Isn't "now" so much better. Sure you have to read some ye olde newsepaper about a man on trail for trying to suggest that the King's coin be replaced by pictures of Monkeys, but it would make 2025 so much easier.
I am a sucker for those prompts. Stephen Hawking, the Great Experimental Physicist, might be a bit limited in what he could demonstrate, but of the three he would probably impact the most. We would get GR and quantum mechanics a bit earlier, which means transistors which means microchips/computers.
It's so weird that people put non-technically trained businessmen on a pedestal as if they knew anything about technology.
If these three people, even Stephen Hawking were sent back in time they would be completely clueless. Maybe Hawking could nudge the direction of astronomy, but that's it.
Steven Hawking would be able to explain Brownian motion, propose further experiments in atomic physics, and start quantum mechanics 30 years early. I could do that much, and Hawking certainly knew incomparably more about math and physics than I ever have.
Hawking. Musk is a pile of 💩, Jobs is just much about #1. Hawking got us the Brief History of Time, he took himself less seriously, just an all-around better guy than his competitors by leaps.
Obvs Hawking is the only real scientist here. But I would choose Elon in hopes his white south african ass gets drafted into the Boer Wars and promptly turned into chunky marinara by a 1-pounder Maxim Gun
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrHWLHPQrg
I can't remember a time i was ambivalent to him, even though I know a while ago I was.
I think i turned when the episode of "Silicon Valley" was just an hour long Tesla commercial.
Gates buys period appropriate clothing on credit and gets an accounting job that pays his bills.
Musk bounces from job to job and somehow eventually ends up selling overpriced band instruments to rubes in Iowa.
Anyways, here's my alternate history fan fiction about a time traveling Elon Musk and Steve Jobs exploiting engineers and scientists throughout time!
If these three people, even Stephen Hawking were sent back in time they would be completely clueless. Maybe Hawking could nudge the direction of astronomy, but that's it.
Musk would be put in asylum because without money he's got nothing but crazy
Stephen would replace Einstein and then some. He'd be able to predict nearly all of theoretical up unto his actual time.