Public Lecture—Angels and Demons: The Science Behind the Scenes

Lecture Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Does antimatter really exist? How and why do scientists produce and use it? Does CERN exist and is there an underground complex deep beneath the Swiss/French border? Is truth stranger than fiction? Find out in this public lecture, in which SLAC physicist Norman Graf discusses the real science behind Angels & Demons, Dan Brown's blockbuster novel and the basis of the Tom Hanks movie. Graf's' talk is one in a series of public lectures across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico to share the science of antimatter and the Large Hadron Collider, and the excitement of particle physics research. Lecturer: Norman Graf, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

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