God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite.“Including matter itself, antimatter.
— Dan BrownEnergetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all—even air.
— Dan BrownIf antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyedinstantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.
— Dan BrownIsn’t antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?
— Dan Brown