[Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The astrophysicist Mario Livio spent 24 years at the Space Telescope Science Institute working with the Hubble Telescope, which has revealed the reality and beauty of the Universe to scientists and citizens in whole new ways. The Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Telescope, will become fully operational in 2022, and will further some of the questions about the early formation of the Universe and the origins of life to which Mario Livio has been devoted. Krista spoke with him in 2010, and this conversation has become an On Being Classic, imparting a thrilling sense of all we are learning about the cosmos in this generation in time, our terrible earthly woes notwithstanding. Also: how scientific advance always meets recurrent mystery, from the emergence of life in the Universe to the very heart of mathematics and the puzzle of dark matter and dark energy.

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0:00.0	On Being With Christa Tippett is supported in part by the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.8	Spiritual Foundation for a loving world. Fetzer's sharing spiritual heritage report asks,
0:10.8	how will we hold on to ancient wisdom traditions while applying them creatively in today's time?
0:16.4	Learn more at Fetzer.org.
0:19.5	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with astrophysicist Mariel Divio.
0:25.7	There is, as always, a shorter produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:33.6	Dr. Livio? Yes. Hi, it's Christa Tippett. Sure, hi. Hi, good to hear your voice.
0:40.7	Good to hear you. I have a question, by the way, for you. Just before we start. I know that,
0:47.6	you know, I was told that the interview is something like an hour and a half.
0:51.0	Right, but yeah, we'll go between 60 and 90 minutes. If that's all right. Yeah, something like that.
0:57.9	How long will the actual program be? It's an hour.
1:02.9	The only reason I ask this is I wanted to know whether I can sometimes give answers,
1:10.0	which are a little bit on the lengthy side or I should, you know, try to do very short answers.
1:17.2	No, that's actually why we do a real long conversation so that we can have a real conversation.
1:24.9	And we also put the unedited interview out so people can hear the lengthy answers if they want to.
1:31.0	And some people do. So yeah, and because it's a real conversation, it, you know, may or may not
1:38.5	be completely linear if there's something that you want to come back to or say better, we can do that.
1:43.1	So that's great. Okay, I think we do have any other questions of me? Any questions about the show or?
1:50.5	No, I know a little bit about your show and I also have, I must say, I've not already covered to cover,
1:56.8	but I have read parts of your book. Oh good. Okay. So you know a little bit of what we do.
2:04.4	Okay, well, I'd like to start where I always start, which is I like to get a sense, whether
2:12.4	someone is religious or not or however they might be religious of whether there was a spiritual or
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