Dark Matter (2012)
Dark Matter is an in-production fulldome movie produced and directed by Peter Morse and Paul Bourke, exploring contemporary theories of Dark Matter, using cutting-edge computational cosmological simulations, sophisticated CGI and ultra-high-definition fulldome live-action video.
Our protagonist is Dr Alan Duffy, Research Associate of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Western Australia (ICRAR, UWA). Dr Duffy is a computational astrophysicist, with specialisms in cosmology, galaxy formation and Dark Matter evolution.
Astrophysical supercomputer simulations parametrically explore possible universes, leading to models that may match and explain the characteristics of the observed universe.
They might be right, they might be wrong, they might be close to the answer – this is the question of science: how can we empirically explain and understand what we actually see in the universe around us?
How can we know it? And once we’ve figured out how, exactly what do we know?
Dark Matter.
It’s complicated stuff; operating on scales of time and space that is almost impossible for the mind to grasp.
Our ambition is to translate this for an intelligent and interested audience.
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Produced & Directed: Peter Morse & Paul Bourke
Visualisation: Paul Bourke, Alan Duffy, Carley Tillett and Peter Morse
Script: Peter Morse, Alan Duffy, Carley Tillett
Supported by: iVEC@UWA, IVEC, ICRAR, UWA, Horizon – The Planetarium (Scitech)
More details soonish.
