Deep within the hearts of stars, a process known as "helium burning" takes place. Here, two helium atoms collide and fuse to create beryllium-8, a fleeting and EXTREMELY unstable element. In a thrilling twist, another helium atom joins the fray, merging with the beryllium to birth carbon.

Carbon, the cornerstone of life, makes up one in every four of all elements beyond hydrogen and helium. But here's the twist: carbon's abundance defies the odds. Beryllium-8's fragility, breaking apart in a mere quadrillionth of a second, should make its fusion with a third helium nucleus an astronomical improbability.

Yet, the universe plays its ace: the Hoyle Resonance. Carbon nuclei possess the perfect resonance that beryllium needs to welcome the final helium nucleus and fuse into carbon.

Carbon is a masterpiece transaction, signed by God.