In an amusingly serious news article we ran across today, the European Center for Nuclear Research is assuring people that antimatter, which features prominently in the upcoming film Angels & Demons, based on the book by the same name by Dan Brown, is nothing to worry about. Reuters reports that CERN spokesman James Gillies said that while director Ron Howard "tried to get the science as right as is possible in the film," some aspects of the fictional plot are unavoidably fantastical.
"As Dan Brown correctly points out, when matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate, leaving only energy behind," Gillies added. "One of the great mysteries of the universe today is how enough matter has survived to provide the building blocks for stars, planets, and even us."
The statements coincided with a visit of Angels & Demons stars Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer to the research center. While most of the movie was shot in Rome, the opening sequence includes images inside CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Angels & Demons is scheduled for release May 15, 2009.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
CERN Offers Reassurances about Antimatter in Angel & Demons
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