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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 57

Every atomic nucleus has a natural energy level that physicists have
been able to identify after lengthy study. These energy levels are quite dif-
ferent from one another but a few rare instances of resonance between
atomic nuclei have been observed. When such resonance occurs, the mo-
tions of the nuclei are in harmony with one another like our examples of
the swing and violin. The important point of this is that the resonance ex-
pedites nuclear reactions that can affect the nuclei. 35
Investigating how carbon was made by red giants, Edwin Salpeter sug-
gested that there must be a resonance between helium and beryllium nu-
clei that facilitated the reaction. This resonance, he said, made it easier for
helium atoms to fuse into beryllium and this could account for the reaction
in red giants. Subsequent research however failed to support this idea.
Fred Hoyle was the second astronomer to address this question. Hoyle
took Salpeter's idea a step further, introducing the idea of "double reso-
nance". Hoyle said that there had to be two resonances: one that caused
two heliums to fuse into beryllium and one that caused the third helium
atom join this unstable formation. Nobody believed Hoyle. The idea of
such a precise resonance occurring once was
hard enough to accept; that it should occur
twice was unthinkable. Hoyle pursued his re-
search for years and in the end he proved that
his idea was right: there really was a double
resonance taking place in the red giants. At
the exact moment two helium atoms resonat-
ed in union, a beryllium atom appeared in the
0.000000000000001 second needed to pro-
duce carbon. George Greenstein describes
why this double resonance is indeed an extra-
ordinary mechanism:

Fred Hoyle was the first to discover the amazing equi-
librium of nuclear reactions taking place in red giants.
Although an atheist, Hoyle admitted that this balance
could not be explained by chance and that it was a de-
liberate arrangement.