triple-alpha

THESIS Main (won): the carbon-12 excited state at 7.654 MeV (Hoyle 1953 predicted about 7.68; Dunbar et al. 1953 found it; measured 7.653 ± 0.008), sitting 0.379 MeV above the three-alpha threshold (7.275 MeV). Ghost (lost): the popular story that Hoyle made an anthropic prediction. Kragh (2010) shows that link was added in the 1980s (LIT). COMPUTEDThe resonant rate goes as exp(−Q/kT). At T = 10⁸ K, d ln r / d ln Q = Q/kT ≈ 44, so a 1% shift in Q changes carbon output by about 44%. That is the real "fine-tuning" lever.

MNEMONIC "Seven-six-five: carbon alive."

Q shift % +1%

After Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves (1972): original writing, credited; the only quotation is the title’s source line. Main track = the idea that won; ghost track = the challenger that lost. Entangled partner: fine-tuning.

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