(January 16, 2019 at 6:51 pm)Scientia Wrote: Do you know how you can pass from Helium to deuterium? By giving it energy. Do you know how you can fuse two nuclei of helium to form 1 nucleus of Berillium (that, for the record, has twice the number of protons/neutrons of helium)? By giving it energy. You kept repeating that I didn't know the process, well here you are, this is how it works. You give things energy, and they change. This is how nuclear fission and fusion work.
Just a quibble: there is no stable isotope Be-8. So fusing two helium nuclei together won't give a stable nucleus. This is a well-known issue in nucleosynthesis. You need to get Be-9. On the other hand, fusing *three* He-4 nuclei together will give you a carbon nucleus: C-12. And this is even what happens inside of stars moving from the hydrogen cycle of fusion into the carbon cycle.
