No./ 10 Meet Hollywood’s favourite scientist

YOU PROBABLY HAVEN’T heard of Dr Clifford V. Johnson. But the fingertips of the British-born physicist from the University of Southern California have been all over Hollywood. If you’re a filmmaker with a time-travel question, he’s the. “The point for me is to try to encourage filmmakers to get science right in some sense. By ‘right’, I don’t mean necessarily that it’s going to fit all the physics textbooks, but ‘right’ in some sense of internal logic.”