{"id":19210,"date":"2016-10-11T21:07:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/geekwire-at-the-movies-voyage-of-time-lays-out-a-visual-book-of-scientific-genesis\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T21:07:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:07:35","slug":"geekwire-at-the-movies-voyage-of-time-lays-out-a-visual-book-of-scientific-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/geekwire-at-the-movies-voyage-of-time-lays-out-a-visual-book-of-scientific-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"GeekWire at the Movies: \u2018Voyage of Time\u2019 lays out a visual book of scientific genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_281370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281370\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-281370\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161011-voyage-time-europa-630x451.jpg\" alt=\"Europa and Jupiter\" width=\"630\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161011-voyage-time-europa-630x451.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161011-voyage-time-europa-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161011-voyage-time-europa.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-281370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cVoyage of Time\u201d makes use of cosmic imagery like this view of Europa with Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot as a backdrop. (Credit: Broad Green Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Is it possible to create a visual gospel, to be seen on a movie screen rather than read from a parchment? If so, that\u2019s what filmmaker Terrence Malick has created in \u201cVoyage of Time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 40-minute IMAX documentary is in its first week of release&nbsp;at theaters across the country, including the Boeing IMAX Theater at Seattle\u2019s Pacific Science Center. There\u2019s also a 90-minute, 35mm version that\u2019s coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoyage of Time\u201d is the culmination of a decades-long&nbsp;dream for Malick, who has directed films&nbsp;ranging from \u201cBadlands\u201d to \u201cThe Thin Red Line\u201d to \u201cThe Tree of Life.\u201d &nbsp;This movie is something completely different, drawing upon computer-generated imagery and nature-documentary footage to tell the 13.8-billion-year tale of creation in almost religious terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was there something rather than nothing?\u201d narrator Brad Pitt asks as the Big Bang unfolds. In a reference to the dark matter that dominates our universe, Pitt observes that \u201cwe and all our world are but the tip of some vast iceberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"IMAX\u00ae Presents: Voyage of Time\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9P6xcbOAfO0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Long stretches are devoted to the creation of the solar system, of Earth, and the cellular genesis that took place&nbsp;in&nbsp;our planet\u2019s primordial oceans. \u201cWhen did dust become life?\u201d Pitt intones. Species rise and fall. Computer-generated dinosaurs rule the earth, until an asteroid streaks through the skies to end their reign.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, it\u2019s fitting that humans strut upon the movie\u2019s stage only intermittently, and mostly in the film\u2019s final minutes. Aboriginal Australians play the part of early humans, cooperating, then clashing. In a matter of seconds, the movie fast-forwards to today\u2019s mega-cities&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;and tomorrow\u2019s cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>The true gospel isn\u2019t in the narration, but in the imagery that washes over you from the 60-foot-tall screen. The creation of the universe\u2019s cosmic web is based on simulations from a supercomputer. Cinematographers harvested imagery from Hawaii\u2019s lava fields and beneath the sea. Some of the special effects were created using magnetized ferrofluids or globs of marmalade rather than computerized fakery.<\/p>\n<p>Is the film scientifically accurate? \u201cVoyage of Time\u201d shouldn\u2019t be used as a textbook \u2013 or, for that matter, as a gospel to live by. Rather, regard it as a creation saga for the 21st century: grounded in science, but not bounded by it.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more about the science behind \u201cVoyage of Time,\u201d check out this Q&amp;A with Harvard Professor Andrew Knoll,&nbsp;the film\u2019s chief science adviser;&nbsp;this Q&amp;A with researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology; and this PDF guide for educators.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVoyage of Time\u201d makes use of cosmic imagery like this view of Europa with Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot as a backdrop. 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