Prof. Jim Al-Khalili (Theoretical Physicist) Interview

[rambo1152]

It's called an interview, but a great effort has been made to edit the interviewers' contribution out. Why?

[missdead1]

I thought he was a particle physicist?

[timephonic]

well i think , advancement of a civilization is directly linked with how much it is open to education and science. Muslim scientists and scholars managed to contribute a lot at that time is because Arabs were relatively more open to these sorts of things compare to the other civilization. The role changed slowly and we Muslims lagged behind.

What i want to say is, its the openness of the society towards science that leads to advancement , its not religion. (sorry for my bad english :p)

[itsabomberscope]

I think Jim is the best Science presenter on TV. He always gets me interested in any subject hes talking about. I feel other presenters try to hard.

[TheRoyco1980]

his father is muslim and his mother is cristian. he has no religion himself but beleves in science as a religion

[lemuriavi]

Muslims scholars aren't just intelligent, they're good looking too.

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@lemuriavi good looking people are smart most of the time

[ahmedo83dll]

i like the way he introduce the bbc documentaries ,, he is really different

[alghoraba]

is he muslim ?

[1001Inventions]

@alghoraba

It doesn't really make any difference what religion he follows (if he follows any) when it comes to the quality, credibility and enjoyability of his work.

For what little it is worth though, no I believe he is not Muslim.

[richiebabe24]

@alghoraba - "As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body."

- Jim Al-Khalili

[volound]

@alghoraba he is an atheist. he denounced his religion while at university.

[farouqnimer]

@alghoraba he's atheist

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@alghoraba no

[qadi0]

@alghoraba he's atheist. 

[SuperInline6]

@alghoraba No, he is a cientist. Cience and religion don't blend, no matter what people say.

[Ramshobraja]

His documentaries are amazing. The main question now is why was there a decline and still no recovery from it?

[TheImmigrantsong]

I like how he is talking. Kinda wise

[1001Inventions]

It makes no sense to say that for 1000 years Muslim civilisation merely preserved the works of older civilisations and made no advances. And the realiity is that the Muslim world gave us huge advances in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, engineering, optics and numerous other fields.

The is exactly the message you will find in Prof. Khalili's documentaries with the BBC, which are highly recommended. (He recently completed a documentary for BBC4 on chemistry.)

[1001Inventions]

Thanks for your comment OASISriffs. Apologies for the abrupt cut-off to the video. This was not our doing but occured during the upload and we are working on finding a way to fix that.

[OASISriffs]

he is my proffessor! and an atheist (luckily).

he gave lectures on this subject, and pointed out the main thing done by the Arabic scholar's was to preserve the knowledge of the ancient Greeks.

and why did you cut the video when he was getting to a very good point?!