It works like this. Across the post-big Bang universe, collections of Higgs bosons make up a pervasive Higgs field - which is theoretically where particles get mass.

As familiar as 'Super 8' feels, it's a welcome rush down memory lane that does a bang-up job of channeling that early Spielberg magic -- all while making it feel fresh.

Whittle has come up with a soundtrack to the birth of the cosmos-and it doesn't sound anything like a bang.