Logo text If there’s one thing movie stars can’t resist, it’s a scientist who can measure the wobble effect of a subatomic muon particle. How else to explain the huge A-list turnout for the Breakthrough Prize, the unabashedly geeky awards show held every spring at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar? Why but for the love of science would the likes of James Corden (who hosted the 12th annual event April 18), Anne Hathaway, Margot Robbie, Ben Affleck, Robert Downey Jr., Sean Penn, Gigi Hadid and Jessica Chastain, among others, show up in black tie to present trophies for special advances in fundamental physics and hand out $100,000 grants to early career mathematicians? “It’s better than the Oscars,” one regular attendee gushes over the event’s shocking star power. “Everybody always wonders how they get such big names.” One theory making the rounds? It has something to do with free rides on a Russian-born billionaire’s superyacht.…