Cosmic Voyage has a format similar to Eva Szasz's
Cosmic Zoom, and
Charles and Ray Eames's classic
Powers of Ten educational video. All were based on the 1957 book
Cosmic View by
Dutch educator
Kees Boeke.
Cosmic Voyage takes viewers on a journey through forty-two
orders of magnitude, beginning at a celebration in
Venice, Italy and slowly zooming out into the edge of the
observable universe. Then the view descends back to Earth, into a drop of water on a leaf beside a waterway in
Kinderdijk,
Netherlands, down to the level of
subatomic particles (
quarks). In addition, the film offers some brief insight on the
Big Bang theory,
black holes, and the development of the
Solar System. It also simulates a journey through
Fermilab's
Tevatron particle accelerator in
Chicago, where an atom collision is depicted. == Production ==