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The antimatter is suspended there...
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in an airtight nanocomposite shell with electromagnets in each end.
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If it were to fall out of suspension and come in contact with matter
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say, the bottom of the canister, the two opposing forces...
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...would annihilate one another violently.
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And what might cause it to fall out of suspension?
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The battery going dead.
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- Which it will, just before midnight. - What kind of annihilation?
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- How violent? - A cataclysmic event.
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A blinding explosion equivalent to about five kilotons.
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Vatican city will be consumed by light.
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Those are the exact words the kidnapper used.