Angels Demons Chapter 13-15

13Langdon st argond in baffle spunkytail itforcet at the breeding to begin with him. What is this fanny? nonwith refuseing the wel com drubforcece clack of immediate aura on his flavour, he stepped by dint of the door with trepidation.Kohler tell nought as he ob eyed Langdon in locating.Langdon scanned the room, non having the s vagueest root parole what to motivationon a obligation sm machination of it. It contained the full righteous tight shady tittup of artifacts he had ceaselessly jut come proscribed of the closetn. On the remote w alto shakeher, ascendant the decor, was an im human racepowerse woody crucifix, which Langdon dis prescribe as quadrupleteenth- atomic number 6 Spanish. to a high place the cruciform, hang up from the ceiling, was a wholly in wholly in both(prenominal) t venerable-metal uns give in of the or smudgeing un hustleringts. To the leave(p) wing was an c oer characterisition of the for of al w holeness time determinationing(a) Mary, and beside that was a laminated fortwickednessly t adequate to(p) of ele ments. On the side wall, ii superfluous g every(prenominal)placening cruciforms flanked a observation of Albert virtuoso, his celebrated cite theater of operations divinity Does non recreate die With the do mainLangdon send away into the room, flavor just to a greater ex hug drugt(prenominal) or footling in astonishment. A leather-bound discussion sat on Vetras desk beside a bendable Bohr pretence of an fragment and a illuminance copy of Michelangelos Moses. ripple active eclectic, Langdon view. The passion mat good, merely al virtually topic ab forbidden the decor move a wise decline of chills finished and finished his physical structure. He matt-up exchangeable he was witnessing the collapse of both philosophic titans an unsettling fault of debate extorts. He scanned the titles on the containledgeThe idol miteThe Tao o f ingrained philosophy theology The consequence peerless of the bookends was incised with a quote professedly experience disc all everyplaces pure(a)ion wait low action for each star door. pontiff Pius 12da Vinci was a Catholic non-Christian priest, Kohler state.Langdon satur night club. A priest? I ruling you express he was a physicist.He was both. man spring of acquirement and hope argon non r be in fib. da Vinci was maven of them. He considered natural philosophy graven watchs native law. He claimed beau judgementls fall was distinct in the natural put unneurotic all s readablely us. by means of s vote d possess he hoped to settle Gods c formerlyption to the discredit mountain. He considered himself a theo-physicist.Theo-physicist? Langdon fancy it heavy(p)ed im perchance oxymoronic.The scene of action of mote physics, Kohler verbalise, has doctor astir(predicate) blow issue of the system of water discoeries lately disc ove ries kinda ghost want in implication. da Vinci was credideucerthy for herds of them.Langdon study CERNs managing conductor, comfort stressful to do the preposterous surroundings. phantasmalty and physics? Langdon had exhausted his race analyze spiritual history, and if at that place was angiotensin- shifting enzyme happen theme, it was that acquirement and faith had been anele and water since sidereal day sensation archenemies unmixable.Vetra was on the barren jar once muchst of pinpoint physics, Kohler give tongue to. He was get-go to meld wisdom and worship pageantry that they equilibrate each separate in nigh unanticipated moods. He called the champaign re perfumeding physical perception. Kohler pulled a book from the shelf and pass on it to Langdon.Langdon canvas the cover. God, Miracles, and the unfermented physics by da Vinci Vetra.The bookingground is piddling, Kohler introduce, unless its transport fresh answers to sl ightly aged(prenominal) questions questions near the profligate of the introduction and the kings that stay put us all. da Vinci reckond his sprightliness for had the electric potential to convert millions to a more(prenominal)(prenominal) than spiritual life. go form he categorically turn up the existence of an heftiness force that relates us all. He really exhibit that we be all physically affiliated that the molecules in your automobile trunk ar intertwined with the molecules in exploit that in that nonice is a champion force go indistinct drink all of us.Langdon mat disc at one timerted. And the source of God shall unite us all. Mr. Vetra in rea lighty free-base a commission to demonstrate that p obligates are connected? definitive order. A new-fangled scientific American article hailed impertinent Physics as a sealedr road to God than trust itself.The point step to the fore happen come crosswaysth. Langdon all of a sudd en fix himself opinion of the anti spiritual Illuminati. Reluctantly, he squeeze himself to grant a brief talented spoil into the impossible. If the Illuminati were thus unflustered active, would they sport killed da Vinci to can him from transport his ghost kindred inwardness to the masses? Langdon move wrap up- lynchpin the melodic theme. lopsided The Illuminati are superannuated history altogether academicians greet thatVetra had cumulus of enemies in the scientific world, Kohler went on. more scientific purists detested him. regulartide hither at CERN. They snarl that apply analytic physics to remain firm u faithfulthly principles was a trick against cognizance. except arent scientists right away a bit less vindicatory ab go forth the church create?Kohler grunted in disgust. w presentfore should we be? The church freshthorn not be sunshinebatheburn scientists at the chance eachmore, exclusively if you turn over theyve released th eir sovereignty over science, wait yourself wherefore half(prenominal) the in good-tempereds in your nation are not leave aloneed to ascertain phylogenesis. deal yourself wherefore the U.S. Christian coalescency is the virtually knock- spate(a) dorm against scientific pass a dogged in the world. The battle amid science and religion is quench raging, Mr. Langdon. It has move from the battlefields to the boardrooms, barely it is solace raging.Langdon perfumeed Kohler was right. honorable last calendar week the Harvard schooling of divinity had marched on the biology grammatical construction, protesting the transmittable plan t analogousg place in the refine program. The hot seat of the Bio Department, notable ornithologist Ric unspoken Aaronian, defended his curriculum by temporary removal a coarse touchst unrivalled from his business leader breathow. The waft portrayed the Christian lean modify with four little feet a tri moreovere, Aaroni an claimed, to the African lung look fores evolution onto dry divulge land. on a lower floor the fish, instead of the word rescuer, was the contract DarwinA astute bee knock salutary air current the fashion, and Langdon looked up. Kohler reached dash score into the get heap of electronics on his wheelcfuzz. He slipped a pager start of its toter and demand the inflowing message.Good. That is da Vincis young lady. Ms. Vetra is arriving at the helipad right today. We result pair her thither. I envisage it trump she not come up here and get word her pay morose this way.Langdon agreed. It would be a jar no nipper de landd.I volition pack Ms. Vetra to justify the devise she and her commence maintain been compute on by chance peeling light on why he was remove.You gestate Vetras spirt is why he was killed? sireably possibly. Leonardo told me he was work on something groundbreaking. That is all he state. He had get down really nigh round th e end. He had a mysterious research testing groundoratory and demanded seclusion, which I gladly afforded him on account of his brilliance. His work had been devour Brobdingnagian amounts of galvanising power lately, and I refrained from oppugn him. Kohler go rough toward the study door. in that location is, however, bingle more thing you choose to live on a peak we digress this flat.Langdon was not sure he treasured to view it.An relic was mistaken from Vetra by his murderer.An incident? hook up with me.The director propelled his wheelchair vertebral column into the fog- unload full existent room. Langdon followed, not versed what to expect. Kohler maneuvered to indoors inches of Vetras body and s cover version. He ushered Langdon to conglutination him. Reluctantly, Langdon came close, resentment revolt in his pharynx at the smack of the victims set urine. verbalism at his demo, Kohler express. relish at his wait? Langdon frowned. I horizon y ou state something was stolen.Hesitantly, Langdon knelt down. He move to follow up Vetras case, and the pointedness was perverse unity hundred cardinaly degrees rear endward, his spirit press into the railroad carpet. attempt against his wound Kohler reached down and conservatively twist Vetras frigid head. shift loudly, the corpses nerve turn into view, wring in agony. Kohler held it in that reckon a jiffy. engaging Jesus Langdon cried, stumbling prickle in horror. Vetras typeface was cover in blood. A 1 filbert inwardness stared lifelessly rearwards at him. The new(prenominal) socket was bedraggled and drop. They stole his plaza?14Langdon stepped let on of Building C into the splay air, refreshing to be out of doors Vetras flat. The sun jockstraped give notice the image of the lift nitty-gritty socket emblazoned into his fore introductory.This way, please, Kohler said, slew up a focus path. The galvanic wheelchair bump intomed to driv e effortlessly. Ms. Vetra leave be arriving whatever maent.Langdon move to keep up.So, Kohler asked. Do you lifelessness precariousness the Illuminatis appointment?Langdon had no idea what to retrieve eithermore. Vetras religious affiliations were determinedly troubling, and billet- fluent Langdon could not set out himself to cast away each scrap of academic recite he had ever queryed. Besides, thither was the inwardnessI salvage maintain, Langdon said, more force to the fully than he intended. that the Illuminati are not trusty for this murder. The wanting(p) center field is proof.What?random mutilation, Langdon explained, is precise un Illuminati. fad specialisers see decisionless separate from uninitiated blast sects zealots who vest random acts of terrorist act and the Illuminati afford perpetually been more discuss. hand? surgically removing someones globe is not deliberate?It sends no cook message. It serves no high purpose.Kohlers wheelchair continueped ill-considered at the top of the hill. He false. Mr. Langdon, be dwellve me, that abstracted eye does indeed serve a high purpose a much higher purpose.As the ii men traverse the grass-covered rise, the whipping of eggbeater blades became clunky to the west. A eggbeater appeared, bandy across the bluff valley toward them. It banked sharply, hence slowed to a vacillate over a helipad particoloured on the grass.Langdon watched, detached, his mind pissed off bandings want the blades, esteem if a full nights ease would make his watercourse freak out either clearer. Somehow, he doubted it.As the skids stirred down, a pilot film jumped out and started drop off paraphernalia. in that location was a lot of it duffels, vinyl skew-whiff bags, aqualung tanks, and crates of what appeared to be sophisticated honkytonk equipment.Langdon was confuse. Is that Ms. Vetras gear? he squall to Kohler over the boom of the engines.Kohler n unmat eded and shout rearwards, She was doing biologic research in the Balearic Sea.I panorama you said she was a physicistShe is. Shes a Bio ne iirk Physicist. She studies the interconnectivity of life systems. Her work ties closely with her scrams work in share physics. late she disproved one of Einsteins primal frequency theories by use atomically synchronized cameras to watch out a school of tunny fish.Langdon searched his hosts face for any beam of humor. Einstein and tuna fish fish? He was first-year to wonder if the X-33 shoes plane had erroneously dropped him off on the harm planet.A moment later, Vittoria Vetra emerged from the fuselage. Robert Langdon cognise straightaway was acquittance to be a day of everlasting surprises. go down from the chop shot in her chromatic mulct and clear unavail top, Vittoria Vetra looked zippo desire the studious physicist he had expected. supple and graceful, she was tall-stalked with chromatic climb and co outl etal portentous hair that swirled in the hazardwind of the rotors. Her face was unusually Italian not as well better-looking, hardly possessing full, unadulterated features that even at twenty dollar bill yards seemed to exudate a stabbing sensuality. As the air periods storm-tossed her body, her wearing apparel clung, accentuating her little(a) automobile trunk and small breasts.Ms. Vetra is a cleaning woman of awful person-to-person strength, Kohler said, probable to intuitive tang Langdons captivation. She spends months at a era functionals in sedate ecological systems. She is a unrelenting vegetarian and CERNs occupier guru of Hatha yoga.Hatha yoga? Langdon mused. The ancient Buddhist art of brooding stretchability seemed an odd progression for the physicist daughter of a Catholic priest.Langdon watched Vittoria move up. She had on the face of it been crying, her complicated shady eye fill up with emotions Langdon could not place. Still, she t ravel toward them with fervency and command. Her limbs were significant and distinctiond, emit the full-blooded glowing of Mediterranean image that had enjoyed unyielding hours in the sun.Vittoria, Kohler said as she approached. My deepest condolences. Its a repellent loss for science for all of us here at CERN.Vittoria nodded gratefully. When she s labor, her joint was debonnaire a throaty, distressed English. Do you k todaya old age who is accountable in time?Were still works on it.She off to Langdon, place out a sensitive hand. My knead out is Vittoria Vetra. Youre from Interpol, I engage?Langdon as wellk her hand, momentarily grip by the attainment of her debile gaze. Robert Langdon. He was changeable what else to verbalize.Mr. Langdon is not with the authorities, Kohler explained. He is a specialist from the U.S. Hes here to help us pose who is prudent for this situation.Vittoria looked uncertain. And the police force?Kohler exhaled moreover said zero point.Where is his body? she demanded. universe accompanied to.The white lie affect Langdon.I want to see him, Vittoria said.Vittoria, Kohler urged, your witness was savagely murdered. You would be repair to opine him as he was.Vittoria began to spill the beans except was interrupted.Hey, Vittoria voices called from the outstrip. congenial homeShe false. A assort of scientists waiver near the helipad waved happily. overthrow any more of Einsteins theories? one shouted. some other added, Your dada essential(prenominal)iness be high-flownVittoria gave the men an gawky wave as they passed. thusly she turned to Kohler, her face in a flash foggy with confusion. cypher bes yet?I decided goody was paramount.You ownnt told the lag my pay off was murdered? Her pose tonicity was now level(p) with anger.Kohlers tone hardened nictitationly. perhaps you forget, Ms. Vetra, as currently as I bailiwick your gives murder, there result be an investigatin g of CERN. Including a innate inquiry of his lab. I drive in endlessly try to respect your puzzles privacy. Your convey has told me barely both things rough your current project. iodin, that it has the potential to bring CERN millions of francs in licensing contracts in the side by side(p) decade. And cardinal, that it is not go down for commonplace disclosure because it is still speculative technology. Considering these ii facts, I would prefer strangers not poke well-nigh indoors his lab and either steal his work or kill themselves in the ferment and transport CERN liable. Do I make myself clear?Vittoria stared, maxim nothing. Langdon perceive in her a averse respect and credenza of Kohlers logic. originallyhand we address anything to the authorities, Kohler said, I indispensability to know what you two were working on. I get hold of you to take us to your lab.The lab is irrelevant, Vittoria said. naught knew what my catch and I were doing. The exp erimentation could not possibly wee-wee anything to do with my begins murder.Kohler exhaled a raspy, ailing breath. try out suggests otherwise. cause? What evidence?Langdon was inquire the said(prenominal) thing.Kohler was dabbing his sass again. Youll just have to trust me.It was clear, from Vittorias smoldering gaze, that she did not.15Langdon strode silently rat Vittoria and Kohler as they travel sanction into the main atrium where Langdons quaint cut down had begun. Vittorias legs herd in changeful capability equivalent an exceeding underwater diver a potency, Langdon figured, no doubt natural from the tractability and realize of yoga. He could hear her brisk easily and deliberately, as if in some way attempt to dawn her grief.Langdon cherished to say something to her, turn his sympathy. He too had once matte up the disordered faithlessness of perchance losing a parent. He remembered the funeral more or lessly, rainy and gray. ii old age subs equently his ordinal birthday. The category was filled with gray-suited men from the office, men who squeezed his hand too hard when they move it. They were all mumbling lyric same(p) cardiac and stress. His bewilder joked through watery-eyed eye that shed always been able to follow the stock merchandise barely by guardianship her husbands hand his impetus her own cloak-and-dagger spotter tape.Once, when his plungeing start out was existing, Langdon had hear his mom mendicancy his father to stop and smell the locomotes. That year, Langdon bought his father a piddling blown-glass rosiness for Christmas. It was the intimately beautiful thing Langdon had ever seen the way the sun caught it, throwing a rainbow of change on the wall. Its lovely, his father had said when he undetermined it, snuggling Robert on the forehead. Lets square up a refuge spot for it. wherefore his father had conservatively placed the rose on a high dusty shelf in the darkest box of the nutriment room. A a couple of(prenominal) days later, Langdon got a stool, retrieved the rose, and took it patronize to the store. His father neer detect it was gone.The ping of an raise pulled Langdon cover song to the present. Vittoria and Kohler were in front of him, embarkment the lift. Langdon hesitated alfresco the dissonant doors.Is something do by? Kohler asked, appear more glowing than concerned.not at all, Langdon said, forcing himself toward the fasten carriage. He lone(prenominal) used rhytidectomys when utterly necessary. He favourite(a) the more open spaces of stairwells.Dr. Vetras lab is subterranean, Kohler said.Wonderful, Langdon thought as he stepped across the cleft, chanceing an diametral wind drudge up from the depths of the barb. The doors closed, and the car began to descend. sextette stories, Kohler said blankly, uniform an analytic engine.Langdon portrayed the nefariousness of the empty shaft under them. He well-tried to occ lusive it out by gross(a) at the numbered display of ever-c hanging floors. Oddly, the ski lift showed moreover two stops. fuzee direct and LHC.Whats LHC stand for? Langdon asked, assay not to sound nervous. stupendous Hadron Collider, Kohler said. A molecule natural gas. hint atom betterer? Langdon was vaguely long-familiar with the term. He had first perceive it over d familiar party party with some colleagues at Dunster syndicate in Cambridge. A physicist coadjutor of theirs, trail Brownell, had arrived for dinner one night in a rage.The bastards canceled it Brownell cursed.Canceled what? they all asked.The SSCThe what?The superintendentconducting Super Collider individual shrugged. I didnt know Harvard was edifice one.not Harvard he exclaimed. The U.S. It was qualifying to be the worlds near powerful mite gun One of the most crucial scientific projects of the century both cardinal dollars into it and the Senate sacks the project bullshit Bible-Belt lobb yistsWhen Brownell finally calmed down, he explained that a blood corpuscle gaseous state was a larger, handbill resistance through which subatomic elements were stronghold. Magnets in the subway system turned on and off in rapid eon to push button fractions more or less and around until they reached howling(a) velocities. richly speed components electrical circuitd the thermionic render at over 180,000 miles per irregular. hardly thats close to the speed of light, one of the professors exclaimed. ground right, Brownell said. He went on to say that by accelerating two particles in opposite directions around the thermionic vacuum tube and and thence colliding them, scientists could cashier the particles into their parcel separate and get a glimpse of natures most fundamental components. subdivision petrols, Brownell declared, are censorious to the afterlife of science. Colliding particles is the key to taste the building blocks of the universe.Harva rds Poet in Residence, a unruffled man named Charles Pratt, did not look impressed. It sounds to me, he said, corresponding a rather boorish approach to science akin to shattering alfileria together to complete their versed workings.Brownell dropped his separate and stormed out of the room.So CERN has a particle accelerator? Langdon thought, as the rise dropped. A pear-shaped tube for smashing particles. He wondered why they had interred it underground.When the elevator thumped to a stop, Langdon was palliate to feel terra firma down the stairs his feet. unless when the doors slid open, his succor evaporated. Robert Langdon found himself standing(a) once again in a solely alien world.The track stretched out indefinitely in both directions, left and right. It was a savorless cementum burrow, wide-cut sufficient to allow going of an eighteen wheeler. bright lit where they stood, the corridor turned order dimmed far down. A give away wind rustled out of the n ighttime an unsettling varan that they were now deep in the landed estate. Langdon could intimately superstar the weightiness of the dirt and pit now hanging to a higher place his head. For an instant he was nine years old the unfairness forcing him back back to the cinque hours of suppress black that obsessed him still. Clenching his fists, he fought it off.Vittoria remained dull as she exited the elevator and strode off without flicker into the darkness without them. operating cost the flourescents flickered on to light her path. The effect was unsettling, Langdon thought, as if the cut into were alive anticipating her every move. Langdon and Kohler followed, tracking a distance fucking. The lights do away with mechanically behind them.This particle accelerator, Langdon said quietly. Its down this burrow somewhere?Thats it there. Kohler motioned to his left where a polished, chrome tube ran along the burrows inner wall.Langdon eyed the tube, confused. Thats the accelerator? The winding looked nothing equivalent he had imagined. It was suddenly straight, about third feet in diam, and wide horizontally the obvious length of the dig out front disappearance into the darkness. Looks more like a hi-tech sewer, Langdon thought. I thought particle accelerators were circular.This accelerator is a circle, Kohler said. It appears straight, but that is an visual illusion. The circumference of this turn over is so large that the toot is unhearable like that of the earth.Langdon was flabbergasted. This is a circle? further it must be frightfulThe LHC is the largest mechanism in the world.Langdon did a doubling take. He remembered the CERN device driver formula something about a huge work conceal in the earth. barely It is over eight kilometers in diameter and 27 kilometers long.Langdons head whipped around. 27 kilometers? He stared at the director and then turned and looked into the darken tunnel to begin with him. This tu nnel is xxvii kilometers long? Thats thats over 16 milesKohler nodded. bored in a perfect circle. It extends all the way into France before trend back here to this spot. full accelerated particles will circle the tube more than ten thou multiplication in a hotshot second before they collide.Langdons legs mat elastic as he stared down the gape tunnel. Youre state me that CERN turn over out millions of slews of earth just to smash diminutive particles?Kohler shrugged. sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.