Angels & Demons is a 2009 American film adaptation of Dan Brown's eponymous novel. It is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code, another Brown film adaptation. 

In Angels & Demons Tom Hanks plays Harvard academic Robert Langdon, who discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood called the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history. When Langdon finds evidence that the Illuminati have stolen antimatter from a secret laboratory at CERN, which they plan to use as a devastating weapon to destroy the Vatican, he and CERN scientist Vittoria Vetra begin a race against time to recover the antimatter and prevent catastrophe.

For those who haven't heard of CERN : " CERN is the world's largest particle physics laboratory. It is one of the most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics: finding out what the universe is made of and how it works. Complex scientific instruments are used at CERN to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature. "

The Scientists of CERN are taking the film as an opportunity to tell the people about the science of particle physics.Worldwide, scientists working on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider will host lectures and other Angels & Demons-related events for press and the public. Lectures are planned at particle physics institutions across Europe, Asia, Central and South America. Click Here to have a look at the Lectres....

Antimatter - What all is it ?

 In Angels & Demons a canister is stolen from a secret laboratory at CERN. It contains one gram of antimatter and is to be used as a devastating weapon. But what is antimatter? Is it real? Is it dangerous? Does it exist at all? 

Our world is made of matter, which consists of three types of particles called electrons, protons and neutrons. Each particle has a specific mass and electric charge. For example, the electron has a negative charge, and the proton a positive charge. Antimatter particles have the same mass as the particles that make up our world, but carry the opposite charge. For example, the electron, which has a negative charge, has an antimatter 'twin' with the same mass but the opposite charge; we call the 'anti-electron' a positron. Particles and antiparticles go together. Imagine sitting on a sandy beach. When you dig a hole, you also create a pile of sand. One cannot be made without making the other: they are complementary - just like particles and antiparticles. Antimatter and matter were created in equal amounts in the Big Bang, but we don't see antimatter around us today. When antiparticles and particles meet, they destroy each other. This process, called 'annihilation', liberates all the energy that is stored in their mass. Annihilation can create gamma-rays or even new particle-antiparticle pairs. CERN scientists are exploring big mysteries such as: if matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts during the Big Bang, and matter and antimatter annihilate, then why is all this matter left-over to form our Universe?

Is this all sounding Interesting .. then better watch the New moive Angels & Demons - Click here for the Official Website of the movie. To know more about the science behind the movie - Click Here to Vist the CERN's Site on Angels & Deamons ( science Behind it ).

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