Talk:Angels and Demons/Divergence from reality

List of factual inaccuracies of the book Angels and Demons authors and history

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Internet vs the WWW.
While Tim Berners-Lee did not invent the Internet, the book never claimed that he did. It merely referenced the World Wide Web. (You can check pages 7 and 20-21 of the book, depending on which version you have.)

May I suggest we bring this paragraph over from Wikipedia:


 * CERN states another often-percieved misunderstanding in the book is the reference to CERN as the organization that invented the Internet, when in fact, Tim Berners-Lee and a small team at CERN invented the hypertext transport protocol that led to the World Wide Web, not the Internet, which was engineered in the United States by DARPA. However, the character Maximilian Kohler claims only that CERN indeed invented the Web, and a plaque later repeats this point. The book never mentions CERN as the inventor of the Internet.

Incorrect wording? Precision vs. resolution
One of the technical errors reads as follows:


 * It is impossible yet to create a device that would measure the charge remaining in a battery so accurately, that it could show the time remaining to battery exhaust with the precision of 1 second.

Surely that should read "...with a resolution of 1 second"? (Or better still, "one second".) My understanding of the terms "precision", "accuracy" and "resolution" is that although related, they are different; the smallest unit of measurement an instrument can discern is the resolution of the instrument, whilst if one were to do a series of tests with the instrument and then subtract each result obtained from the result which should have been obtained, the accuracy of the instrument is given by the arithmetic mean of the differences whilst the precision is given by the standard deviation. -- 92.40.32.106 (talk) 13:21, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Cellular phones
what does the sentence "Cellular phones do not have dial tones" means?
 * "Cellular phones" is another name for the devices which are also called "cellphones" or "mobile phones" (the latter being the most common name for them in the UK). — 92.40.6.56 (talk) 12:18, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

We in law enforcement only wish we could locate a cell phone within a few meters in seconds. Sorry, that is just not true.

Technology seconds about Wifi camera
The author of this article confuses latency with bandwidth. Having the ability to transmit something near real time is latency. Being able to transmit the data with enough resolution and shaking as shown in the movie is both a combination of Bandwidth and Latency.

Microwave devices can be use to achieve both such latency and bandwidth. Though the transmission through solid rock would make receiving such signal pretty difficult.