Hot particles: could you blow up the Vatican with antimatter?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
In the film Angels and demons, the recent death of the pope has brought together a special meeting of cardinals in Rome. Meanwhile the ancient order of the Illuminati is threatening to blow them up using ‘antimatter’ recently stolen from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. In one scene we see the collider making, isolating and storing the antimatter in what looks like a hand-held battery-powered magnetic vacuum flask. Is this possible, and could you really make a bomb from antimatter?
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