Western society has been struggling with the respective roles of science and religion for thousands of year, and it is anything but dull! Case in point: this age-old conflict is central to Dan Brown's action thriller Angels and Demons, in which these two long-time rivals square off when scientists capture antimatter, and in so doing validate a scientific-based explanation of Creation. In Brown's thriller, as with Galileo's discoveries, the "God particle" threatens the Church since the "discovery might begin to bridge the gap between science and religion."