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May 10, 2011

Fundamental question on how life started solved: Supercomputer calculates carbon nucleus

Fundamental question on how life started solved: Supercomputer calculates carbon nucleus

For carbon, the basis of life, to be able to form in the stars, a certain state of the carbon nucleus plays an essential role. In cooperation with US colleagues, physicists from the University of Bonn and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have been able to calculate this legendary carbon nucleus, solving a problem that has kept science guessing for more than 50 years.

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