"In order to attract and store antimatter, you have to slow it down to very low speeds," he says. The LHC has not carried out any atom collisions yet-CERN hopes to begin using it as soon as September of this year-and at any rate, the antimatter moving in that machine will move too quickly to capture. In reality, the antimatter that CERN has produced wasn't made in the LHC. We can make about a billionth of a gram in a year."Īccording to Landua, Howard chose the LHC as the particle accelerator where the antimatter is produced because the 25 meter tall, 42 meter long machine is visually dynamic. it would take about a billion years to produce a gram. "That's not possible for two reasons: It would need much more energy to do it-with present efficiency, it would take 10 - 22 joules-and the reality of how quickly antimatter can be produced. "In the movie, we switch on the LHC and it produces a gram of antimatter in a few minutes," Landua says. But unlike in the movie-where CERN has produced a gram of antimatter-the facility has actually only produced a small amount of the substance.
Antimatter was first produced at CERN in 1995, though not by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). You can't do one without the other." The first antielectron was produced in 1932, and particle accelerators helped scientists create the first antiproton in 1955. I compare it to digging a hole in the sand, and then you have a pile next to it.
"Nature doesn't like to create just one sort it always produces both to keep a balance. "Every time you squeeze a lot of energy into a small space, you produce equal amounts of matter and antimatter," Landua explains. The plot is set in motion when a secret scientific society known as the Illuminati steals the antimatter the organization's goal is to use it to destroy the Vatican during the selection of a new Pope.Īntimatter is a real substance, first theorized in 1928. In Angels & Demons, scientists at CERN use the Large Hadron Collider to create one gram of a highly volatile substance called antimatter, which they store in electromagnetic traps. "We had a long discussion, almost the whole day," Landua says, "about how the science in the movie could be made as authentic as possible." Rolf Landua, a CERN scientist who worked closely with Howard. Angels & Demons's science was a main concern to director Ron Howard, says Dr.
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