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Angels & Demons: The Science Revealed

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Carnegie Mellon Angels Demons Manfred Paulini Lecture CERN Fermilab Physics Antimatter
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Could you really destroy the Vatican using a small amount of antimatter made in the Large Hadron Collider? Thats the question Carnegie Mellons Manfred Paulini seeks to answer in the lecture Angels and Demons: The Science Revealed. Dr. Paulini, an experimental particle physicist and member of the CMS experiment at CERNs Large Hadron Collider, discusses the science facts and fiction in the movie Angels and Demons, based on Dan Browns best-selling novel.

Dr. Paulini talks about the physics at the heart of Angels and Demons, which focuses on what happens when matter and antimatter meet. The absence of practically any antimatter in the universe is crucial to our existence, and understanding that absence is one of the big challenges of particle physics.

For more about Dr. Paulini's work, visit: http://www.phys.cmu.edu/people/faculty/Paulini/

"Angels and Demons: The Science Revealed" is part of the University Lecture Series. For more, visit: http://www.cmu.edu/uls

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