Answers delivered to you by CERN's X-33 rocketplane

[mmcirvin]

beamjockey discovered that CERN has a whole FAQ devoted to answering questions about CERN and antimatter inspired by Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. It is a deadpan masterpiece.

I also heartily recommend beamjockey's timeline of the use of antimatter in science fiction, with special emphasis on Jack Williamson's Seetee stories (which I never got around to reading). He has some addenda here, and muses a little about the Star Trek connection (though antimatter in SF was pretty old-hat by that point).

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[pompe.livejournal.com]

Dan Brown sure has done great things for science.