• Question: if you could go back in time and meet albert einstein what one question would you ask him ?

    Asked by clatworthy to Ozge, Glo, Dave, Clare on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Gloeta Massie

      Gloeta Massie answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Knowing what your science would be used for in the future, if you could go back, would you still work on the atomic bomb?

    • Photo: Clare Woulds

      Clare Woulds answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I’d like to hear him describe how he came up with general relativity. Did it all become clear really quickly, or did he work it out over time?

    • Photo: Dave Sproson

      Dave Sproson answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I’ve been thinking about this for a while – there’s so many things that I would like to ask him! In the end though, I think I’d go with Glo ask him about how he really thought about working on producing nuclear weapons. One of his famous quotes is something ‘If only I knew I should have become a watchmaker’, referring to his work on nuclear weapons. However, I think he knew much more about what was happening that that suggests, so I’d like to hear it from him first hand.

      If I could ask two questions (indulge me!), the second would be about how he came up with all of the ‘thought experiments’ that he was quite famous for.

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