![]() ![]() Heuer did confirm, however, the invention of Web software at CERN to enable scientists all over the world to share large quantities of data electronically. ‘I’ve got a lot of keys, but I haven’t found the airplane yet,’ Heuer chuckled. (This plane doesn’t make an appearance in the movie.)Īccording to Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director-general at CERN, the X-33 is a figment of Brown’s imagination. ![]() Will human-made black holes destroy the world? Could artificially created anti-matter be an alternative source of energy? Did Al Gore really invent the World Wide Web? Do super-secret super-sonic jets that can cross the Atlantic Ocean in about an hour really exist? The novel Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, released this past weekend as a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard, raises these and other questions.Īccording to renowned physicists who participated in a National Science Foundation video conference Tuesday, May 19th, some of what is divulged in the Brown novel is pure fiction, but much of it has a real basis in science.įor example, in the novel, Robert Langdon flies from Boston to Switzerland in a mysterious supersonic jet prototype, the X-33, which can travel ‘at the mind-numbing speed of 11,000 mph.’ In the story, the plane is owned by leading Swiss nuclear research facility the (CERN). ![]()
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