Can anyone who has seen/read "Angels and Demons" tell me whether flying the antimatter high above Vatican City in a helicopter should have made any difference whatsoever, assuming the helicopter could even get that high that fast? I mean, wouldn't the shock wave from an antimatter explosion shatter everything for miles around, including buildings? Not to mention the fact that anyone anywhere near the 'blast' would most likely get fried by a massive flux of high-energy gamma rays rivaling a solar flare in intensity.

 

Did Dan Brown just hugely drop the ball on this one? Or am I missing something?

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