Angels and Demons: The Science Revealed

The movie “Angels and Demons”, an action-packed thriller based on Dan Brown’s best-selling novel that focuses on an apparent plot to destroy the Vatican using a small amount of antimatter. That antimatter is made using the Large Hadron Collider and is stolen from the particle physics laboratory, CERN. Parts of the movie were filmed at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The lecture will discuss the science behind the movie, the Large Hadron Collider and the excitement of particle physics.