jack

you know, there aren't all that many circumstances under which I'd have to shamefacedly admit to not having read a Dan Brown novel.

I was going to say, you confess? I think not reading a book you're pretty sure you won't enjoy is a good thing :)

If the person in the book who hasn't heard of antimatter is not someone who'd match my perhaps-plausible characterisation

Well, I think they DO, it's just that is STILL rings false to me but I'm not sure exactly why.