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For decades, scientists said it was physically impossible for a human to stay in the air for one full second. Michael Jordan, the greatest athlete alive, only managed 0.92 seconds. That number sat untouched for years. Then Isaiah Rivera came along with a 50-inch vertical and pushed it to 0.96 seconds. Closer, but still not a full second. Everyone started wondering, is one second actually breakable? Then Darius Clark stepped up, the man with the highest vertical jump ever recorded. He launched himself into the air and stayed there for 1.0178 seconds, the first human being in history to break the one second barrier, gravity finally lost.