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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 61

all the thermal and light energy reaching Earth is the result of this solar nu-
clear reaction.
Like the reactions taking place in red giants, this solar nuclear reaction
turns out to involve a number of unexpected aspects without which it
could not take place. You can't simply jam four hydrogen atoms together
and turn them into helium. To make this happen, a two-step process is re-
quired, paralleling the one taking place in red giants. In the first step, two
hydrogen atoms combine to form an intermediary nucleus called
deuteron consisting of one proton and one neutron.
What force could be great enough to produce a deuteron by jamming
two nuclei together? This force is the "strong nuclear force", one of the four
fundamental forces of the universe mentioned in the previous section. This
is the most powerful physical force in the universe and is billions of bil-
lions of billions of billions times stronger than the gravitational force.
Nothing but this force could unite two nuclei like this.
Now the really curious thing about all this is that research shows that,
strong as it is, the strong nuclear force is just barely strong enough to do
what it does. If it were even slightly weaker than it is, it would not be able
to unite the two nuclei. Instead, two protons nearing each other would re-
pel each other immediately and the reaction in the Sun fizzle out before it
ever began. In other words, the Sun would not exist as an energy-radiating
star. Concerning this, George Greenstein says: "Had the strong force had
been only slightly less strong, the light of the world would have nev-
er been lit." 40

Single-proton hydrogen nuclei Di-proton nucleus with two pro-
tons