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A Teaching Moment: Angels & Demons

Explore the intersection of science and faith in the Angels and Demons movie, focusing on CERN's role in antimatter.

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May 15 will be the premiere of Angels & Demons, the Ron Howard movie starring Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer, based on the Dan Brown novel. The narrative moves between particle physics at CERN and religious politics at the Vatican -- feel free to provide your own characterization of that particular binary opposition.

We have no idea how good the movie is going to be, but it's sure to garner attention, and it does feature physics prominently. So the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society figures that we might as well get some mileage out of it. They recently sent around the email below, encouraging physics departments to host "Angels & Demons lecture nights" to capitalize on the interest generated by the movie. Seems like a good idea to me -- rather than spending energy finding flaws in the physics as portrayed in the movie (which ...

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