Over the years, as Hoyle thought more about the discovery of the exact resonance level of carbon that he had predicted, and especially about all the factors that had to be just right to make carbon relatively easy to produce inside stars, he became convinced that some intelligence had orchestrated the precise balance of forces and factors in nature to make the universe life-permitting.26 The strengths of the strong nuclear and electromagnetic forces, the ratio between the fundamental forces,27 the exact kinetic energy of beryllium and helium, and thus the strength of gravitational forces
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