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Who discovered the Hoyle level

TYPEAstrophysics Seminar
Speaker:Giora Shaviv
Affiliation:Technion
Organizer:Hagai Perets
Date:21.08.2013
Time:14:30 - 15:30
Location:Lidow 620
Abstract:The Hoyle level in carbon 12 was the trigger to the invention of the Anthropic principle. We review the history of the discovery, we argue that the arguments
for the existence of the level were largely insufficient for the derivation of Hoyle's and Carter conclusions.