Salman Hameed from Kainaat Studios comes back on The Pakistan Experience for a wildly interesting podcast on the Origins of the Universe, Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes.
On this episode we discuss the James Webb Telescope, the Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, The Trial of Galileo, Abdus Salam, Suparco, The Contribution of Muslims, Aurora Borealis, Solar Eclipses, Pakistan's mission to the Moon and Chandrayaan.
Kya Zameen Sakin Hay?
What can Pakistan learn from India's Space Achivements?
Is there a crisis in Cosmology?
Find out this and more on this week's episode of The Pakistan Experience.
Salman Hameed is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Kainaat Studios, that creates topical astronomy videos in Urdu for audiences in Pakistan (and broader South Asia). He is also Charles Taylor Chair and Professor of Integrated Science & Humanities at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and is a member of the Five College Astronomy Department (FCAD), but his research is interdisciplinary and it focuses on analyzing how science interacts with society. Science communication is still his primary focus. Salman has a YouTube Channel (Kainaat Astronomy) for Urdu videos and a weekly astronomy segment in English for a New England Public Radio (NEPM) in Massachusetts. Through Kainaat Studios, he also produces astronomy content in Urdu specially aimed at kids in Pakistan. His writings have appeared in Dawn Magazine, Express Tribune, Science Magazine, and the Guardian.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:00 Has the James Webb Telescope disproved the Big Bang?
7:15 How to calculate the size and distance from brightness
15:40 Galaxies, Space and the Milky Way
25:10 Crisis in Cosmology and the Hubble Constant
29:00 Intelligent Design Movement
33:50 Origin of the Universe and God
43:00 Zameen Sakin Hai and Galileo
57:30 Spanish Golden Age, Renaissance and Contribution of Muslims
1:11:30 Abdus Salam
1:20:50 Suparco, China and America
1:39:00 Stars in the Sky and the Aurora Borealis
1:54:30 Pakistan's mission to the Moon
1:58:27 India's Space Achievement and what can we learn from it
2:08:00 Audience Questions