CERN web site explains the science in Angels & Demons

The film maker has used the concept of antimatter interestingly for money making. He exposes the tangle between
vatican vs science diplomatically. But
expectations of either quantum physics or religious propaganda is of no use out of this film.

Angels and Demons is one of the best books I've ever read! started reading it and couldn't put it out of my hands before I was done. Dan Brown is a genius! sure, some scientific facts were hard to understand, but even in spite of this I was impressed like never before.

Well the CERN is "ours" in a way. It's a pan-European venture with a lot of French implication. It's our tax money that pays for it too. Also, I live in Lyon, which is just over an hour's drive from Geneva, Switzerland, where the CERN is situated, so we are probably more interested for that reason too.Whereas the Europeans and the French are very interested in fundamental research and still pour lots of money into it, the Americans and Canadians do not see it as a priority, preferring research into future technologies.The upside for you guys over there is that the practical research preferred has driven the world's economy and will continue to do so, whereas we have lagged behind, and are leaders almost no future technology, including environmental change issues and alternatives to petrol. The upside for us though is that we are, yes, maybe more informed on fundamental research issues in general.