Chinese mad scientists levitate fish with sound

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Brad @ Dec 1st 2006 11:43AM

This particular method is not useful for anti-matter containment. The technology shown uses sound (ie: pressure) waves to suspend the object. These pressure waves require the presence of matter (or anti-matter) to exist. Since there is no way to transition from a matter-based pressure wave generator (eg: speaker cone) to an anti-matter fluid, anti-matter uses are impossible.

That's the beauty of electromagnetic waves as used in Angels and Demons... EM waves transcend matter and anti-matter frivolities like annihilation.

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Erik @ Dec 1st 2006 7:51PM

he containment method used in Angels & Demons was also ridiculous.

Magnetic Bottles can only contain charged particles; charged particles cannot be contained at the density required to form liquid droplets. Either the antimatter was not charged, in which case the magnetic field would not hold the antimatter, it would leak and annihilate taking the lab with it, or the antimatter was a charged plasma, and at the inferred density the repulsive Coulomb force would blow the sample apart and out of the bottle to annihilate taking the lab with it.

Dan Brown did a disservice to his novel by trying to explain too much. He also did a disservice to everyone by being a terrible writer.

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