ATLAS gets the Hollywood treatment
[June 2008]

Strangers photographing the ATLAS detector are a familiar sight for those working down in the pit. But last month, things were a little bit different: the detector was being photographed in preparation for its Hollywood debut in the dramatisation of Dan Brown’s best-seller Angels and Demons.

Although the author has his own particular “creative” take on the laws of physics, and his representation of CERN is somewhat off the mark, the place does play an important part in the story – as the location from which antimatter is stolen by a secret society intent on creating a bomb to destroy the Vatican...

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