Carbon - The Improbable Element and the Triple Alpha Process

[@chiphister]

Hoyle was an incredible genius who SHOULD have won the Nobel prize.

[@banyantree]

Excellent video!!

[@yungapplewhite]

incredible video, although I don't know much about physics nor am i studying physics or im a scholar in the matter, i found the triple alpha process something incredibly interesting and wanted to research more about it, and this explanation has been incredible and clear, making me want to research more physics. Thanks man, excelent day.

[@daa8839]

hey nice video! deserves more views, very informative and i learned some cool stuff

[@miikavuorio6925]

Great video, it deserves more views, I was looking for exactly this information, though I guess many people aren't lol. Though I would've wanted to learn a bit more in depth what these nuclear energy levels mean exactly, but that's ok :D. As for an answer to your final question, no, this does not support the argument for fine tuning, because if these constants were not like this then we wouldn't be here to analyse it and say that it wouldn't be well tuned. Given the parameters of the universe allow for a certain type of life, that certain type of life arose in the universe with those parameters. Not that there is a certain type of life and then the universe was designed to work for this certain type of life.

[@edgarolrik6746]

Hi Miika.... I too enjoyed the video, but I cannot agree with your reply to the final question. I (think I) understand your logic, and on its own it is valid. Yet, that flow of logic should be in harmony with other factors pertaining life and the Universe. Understanding that chemical evolution did not take place - it couldn't; and that evolution (common decent) also could not have taken place - despite its popularity and media support it isn't the real thing, it places with elegant inevitability the beginning of that Universe and its precise set of values in the light of being 'fine tuned'.

[@Fundamental_Islam.]

Of course. The infinity itself is an all powerful, extremely complex, supremely intelligent entity

[@AndrewKnightMIT]

nice explanation

[@petergreaves1453]

I really liked this - I understood it and I am no scientist (I have ambitions, for sure :)).