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The Lost One
There is nothing woo about the existence of the hydrogen and helium atoms in the early universe.And what then about the woo of "a primordial atom which created everything in a Big Bang" which even cannot be verificated scientifically? Even the better of ancient Myths of Creation are not that superstitious.
Stars have been known to form around area of ionized hydrogen known as H II Region, can be found in Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). GMC that you can find like in nebulas, like Orion Nebula and Eagle Nebula. These clouds act as stellar nurseries.
Are you denying that stars cannot form in H II Region of nebulas, when Orion Nebula is so close to the Earth?
We know that the cloud of hydrogen can coalesce together and become dense enough to gravitationally pull more hydrogen, making it denser. When such such dense cloud forms in space, they often take shape of sphere. But in this proto-star stage of star formation, the sphere would have developed several concentric layers, outer layers and the core.
The core is always denser than the outer layers, as well as having higher temperature than the outer layers.
When the core reach critical temperature, the core will become enough to trigger nuclear fusion, thus fusing hydrogen nuclei into helium atom. This basic fusion is known as proton-proton chain reaction, a type of fusion in the star’s core, generally known as Stellar Nucleosynthesis.
There are other types of Stellar Nucleosynthesis, that instead of fusing hydrogen, more massive stars can fuse into heavier atoms, eg Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen (CNO) Cycle, but these stars have to be at least 1.3 mass of our Sun, with even higher core’s temperature than the sun’s core, to trigger such nucleosynthesis.
We known that once there are no hydrogen nuclei left to fuse at the core, if the core hot enough, it could cause helium atoms to fuse into heavier atoms, like carbon atom, or the temperature cause collapse that could trigger supernova.
Explosion, like a supernova, can fuse even heavier atoms, such as oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, nickel and iron atoms, which is different type of Nucleosynthesis - Supernova Nucleosynthesis.
Past supernovas are most likely responsible for all the the heavier elements being introduced into this system, before the formation of our Solar System - elements that are found on planets, planetesimals and asteroids.
So yes, lighter elements can form into heavier elements.
You do have some basic understanding of nuclear physics, don’t you?
What I said about Stellar Nucleosynthesis, hydrogen atoms forming into heavier helium atom, when it reach the right temperature, is similar to the explosion of hydrogen bomb or thermonuclear bomb. It is the same hydrogen-into-helium process, requiring very high heat.
The science is there, Native. There is no woo in them. The woo comes from your belief in ancient myths, mixing them with modern science. I am only engineer, not a physicist, but even I can tell you are speaking woo when you talk of the Milky Way, and mixing Hathor or other sky deities.