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[Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Power of Mathematics

Mathematicians use words to describe mathematics that are also used to describe the divine right, omnipresence and omnipotence. It turns out that the only way we know how to describe these things is using mathematics. The law of gravity was already accurate to better than one part in a million by the 19 fifties.

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