• Question: if you could meet any scientist from history, who would it be and why

    Asked by pace532gene76 to Andy S on 13 Mar 2026.
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      Andrew Senior answered on 13 Mar 2026:

      Gregor Mendel. He was the father of genetics. A science that replaced many religous ideas of what made people the way they are. Yet he was a monk himself. I’d like to know what his thoughts were on science and how this lined up with his beliefs.

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    Andrew M commented on :

    Perhaps Johann Becher, not a famous Chemist but the one who came up with the idea of phlogiston, a miraculous material with negative weight, released when you heat things. His ideas proved popular and held back chemistry for almost a century. Hopefully he’d be open to the idea there might be an alternative reason why things gain weight when you heat them in air.