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Fred Hoyle conjectured Carbon has a state
of excitation far above the ground
and excess energy can radiate
instead of shattering on the rebound
no evidence for such a state was known
it came to him like Kekulé's dream-wraith
a brainstorm that occurred to him alone
but which he published in an act of faith
that heavy elements could be explained
without invoking miracles or Djinn
relieved cosmologists who'd felt constrained
to only Hydrogen and Helium
a cosmos built up from Fred Hoyle's insight
a world for Goldilocks that fits just right