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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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.