"Brown, Dan - Angels and Demons" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brown Dan)

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A debt of gratitude to Emily Bestler, Jason Kaufman, Ben Kaplan, and everyone at Pocket Books for
their belief in this project.
To my friend and agent, Jake Elwell, for his enthusiasm and unflagging effort.
To the legendary George Wieser, for convincing me to write novels.
To my dear friend Irv Sittler, for facilitating my audience with the Pope, secreting me into parts of Vatican
City few ever see, and making my time in Rome unforgettable.
To one of the most ingenious and gifted artists alive, John Langdon, who rose brilliantly to my impossible
challenge and created the ambigrams for this novel.
To Stan Planton, head librarian, Ohio University-Chillicothe, for being my number one source of
information on countless topics.
To Sylvia Cavazzini, for her gracious tour through the secret Passetto.
And to the best parents a kid could hope for, Dick and Connie Brown . . . for everything.

Thanks also to CERN, Henry Beckett, Brett Trotter, the Pontifical Academy of Science, Brookhaven
Institute, FermiLab Library, Olga Wieser, Don Ulsch of the National Security Institute, Caroline H.
Thompson at University of Wales, Kathryn Gerhard and Omar Al Kindi, John Pike and the Federation of
American Scientists, Heimlich Viserholder, Corinna and Davis Hammond, Aizaz Ali, the Galileo Project of
Rice University, Julie Lynn and Charlie Ryan at Mockingbird Pictures, Gary Goldstein, Dave (Vilas)
Arnold and Andra Crawford, the GlobalFraternal Network, the Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Jim
Barrington, John Maier, the exceptionally keen eye of Margie Wachtel, alt.masonic.members, Alan
Wooley, the Library of Congress Vatican Codices Exhibit, Lisa Callamaro and the Callamaro Agency, Jon
A. Stowell, Musei Vaticani, Aldo Baggia, Noah Alireza, Harriet Walker, Charles Terry, Micron
Electronics, Mindy Homan, Nancy andDick Curtin, Thomas D. Nadeau, NuvoMedia andRocket E-books,
Frank and Sylvia Kennedy, Rome Board of Tourism, Maestro GregoryBrown, Val Brown, Werner
Brandes, Paul Krupin at Direct Contact, Paul Stark, Tom King at Computalk Network, Sandy and Jerry
Nolan, Web guru Linda George, the National Academy of Art in Rome, physicist and fellow scribe Steve
Howe, Robert Weston, the Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, New Hampshire, and the Vatican
Observatory.

FACT
T he world's largest scientific research facility-Switzerland's Conseil Europщen pour la Recherche
Nuclщaire (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