"The science plays a much smaller role in the film than in the book, but the DVD should include some extras explaining the real science of antimatter," said Gillies. CERN particle physicist Mike Lamont provided the dialog used in the script for the control room scene and as a result will see his name is listed in the film's credits.
The movie's cast and crew not only toured the LHC but also talked with the CERN scientists to gain insights into what it is really like for the scientists who work in the laboratory. "The researchers for the script were very careful to get the sort of things that might be said in the LHC control room right." "I found the script to be a very clever distillation of the parts of the book that you really need to keep to tell a very tight and gripping story," says Gillies. It is pure fiction, but it was a fun conversation."ĬERN officials were also given the opportunity to see the movie’s script as it evolved and provide input. "I remember having a long phone conversation with Ron Howard where we got over that by inventing some new physics - low-angle resonant production of antimatter at the LHC. Gillies recalls the creative solution that he and Howard came up with. "Another problem with casting the LHC as the antimatter factory is that antimatter particles produced in the LHC will be too energetic to trap."
It's never going to happen," physicist and CERN spokesman James Gillies said. "It would take CERN 125 million years to produce the amount of antimatter needed for an explosion the size referred to in the film. In the film, 1/8 of a gram of antimatter is stolen from the collider by terrorists who want to create a bomb to destroy the Vatican. Howard and the movie's stars, Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer, toured the laboratory and got an up close look at the LHC. So when Ron Howard began directing the "Angels & Demons"movie, he went to the source - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland - to learn about the science central to the story’s plot.
(ISNS) - While Dan Brown’s bestselling-book "Angels & Demons" is a work of fiction, some of the science depicted in the story is based in fact.
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