Ден Браун - Ангелы и Демоны / Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
Год выпуска: 2000
Автор: Ден Браун
Dan Brown
Формат: PDF
Качество: eBook (изначально компьютерное)
Количество страниц: 294
Описание: The world's largest scientific research facility-Switzerland's Conseil Européen pour la Recherche
Nucléaire (CERN)-recently succeeded in producing the first particles of antimatter. Antimatter is
identical to physical matter except that it is composed of particles whose electric charges are opposite
to those found in normal matter.
Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It releases energy with 100 percent
efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.5 percent efficient). Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation, and a
droplet could power New York City for a full day. There is, however, one catch...
Antimatter is highly unstable. It ignites when it comes in contact with absolutely anything... even air. A
single gram of antimatter contains the energy of a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb-the size of the bomb
dropped on Hiroshima.
Until recently antimatter has been created only in very small amounts (a few atoms at a time). But
CERN has now broken ground on its new Antiproton Decelerator-an advanced antimatter production
facility that promises to create antimatter in much larger quantities.
One question looms: Will this highly volatile substance save the world, or will it be used to create the
most deadly weapon ever made?
