So helium is a limited resource. Okay gotcha. So why not take two hydrogen atoms. Take their protons and neutrons. And just fucking start squeezing them together until you get helium?
And I don’t mean in the same way you get H2. Those are still separate from each other.
Because it takes a real lot of energy. Like a real lot of it. We’re currently trying to do that in a controlled form in ITER which is still getting built
This! Here’s an amazing periodic table which shows what events were needed to generate the elements we know and love today:
It goes to show some insanely powerful events were required to make the common elements!
Fun fact: The periodic table is actually a circle, when on the wall of a class room it’s the same as a map of the world on the wall!