CERN and Angels and Demons

For a lot of people out there, CERN is just a backdrop for the Dan Brown book "Angels and Demons". If you've not read it yet, leave this page, read the book, and come back. The book is about an ancient brotherhood called the Illuminati which plants an antimatter bomb (stolen from CERN) in the Vatican, and about a Harvard professor who plays detective. If you try not to think too much about what you're reading, you'll love the book. It's almost screenplay for a Hollywood movie. It'd be fun to see Tom Hanks running around Rome, and I have to see how they show the recreational vertical wind tunnel at CERN. Maybe we'll end up getting one after all! :-)

CERN maintains a fact-and-fiction page on Angels and Demons. This is of course, almost necessary. I can imagine lots of ignorant and/or uninformed people thinking of CERN as a place that has antimatter bombs lying around just for assassins from secret brotherhoods to come by and pick up. However, after being at CERN as an insider for a few months, some of Dan Brown's stuff seems hilarious; some just ridiculous.

Check out the fact-or-fiction page at CERN.
http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/Spotlight/SpotlightAandD-en.html