The date of this revelation was 1933; "he" is the physicist Leo Szilard; time cracked open because he had just realized how to initiate a nuclear chain reaction.
"They said you can't change the shape of the racket," he scoffed, adding with the authority of a physicist, "Every time a ball hits the racket, it changes its shape".
Physicist discusses time.
It turns out that memories may be a thing of the future if, as some physicists believe, time runs backward (backward wristwatch, houseofrave.com, $28.95).
"This man is the greatest physicist of our time," the pope says to the inquisitor.
One is Judah Levine, a physicist at the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo.
With her tireless support and determination, Stephen went on to become the most celebrated physicist of our time.
It stems from one of the most fortuitous episodes in the modern history of science, and involves intimately the most famous physicist of all time, Albert Einstein.
In the millennium poll a survey of the 100 most prominent physicists Maxwell was voted the third greatest physicist of all time, behind only Newton and Einstein.
First up is The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne as "A Brief History of Time" physicist Stephen Hawking on 7 November, followed two weeks later by The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as World War II cryptologist hero and computer pioneer Alan Turing.
