I've come to the realization that humanity's presence won't mean anything

@sunriselover It was not made that way.

It started as hydrogen, and fusion into helium could only start once the compression by its own mass could raise the core temperature and pressure sufficiently.

All the other elements, including the "stardust" from dying stars, come much later in long and complex fusion chains as stars start to break down.

That's the easy bit! The real question of course, is the source of the primeval hydrogen.

@ArishMell my understanding is that The sun formed 5 billion years ago from the remains of old stars. Fusion started with the production if hydrogen, helium etc. it still has not reached iron. That occurred when it becomes a Red Giant, maybe in 8 billion years time. Yet there are heavy elements in the Earth, so the must have come from stardust from dying stars when the exploded and became supernovae and remnant white dwarves.

@sunriselover Yes, the Sun is still fairly young, but like all stars they don't start from the heavier elements. Their primary and stable-life fuel is hydrogen.

It may well contain the heavy elements formed by massive stars and their deaths, by accretion, just as the planets have; but those are not its primary fuel.

@ArishMell What I don’t understand is how the sun excreted nine or ten balls of plasma to form the planets. And they in turn spewed out the moons etc.

The present model works up to a point. As did the flat Earth model up to six hundred years ago.

@sunriselover That's not the normal model, which does work very well.

The developing Sun's gravitational field accreted all sorts of materials around it, as you say those having been made by dying, older stars. Some would have fallen into the star but most formed an "accretion disc" orbiting it.

The Sun if too massive to have expelled enough material to form the planets. It can only eject very low-density, very energetic sub-atomic particles, and it does that in vast quantities; but those are not elements or compounds..

In time this accretion disc broke into the globules, partially but imperfectly sorted by density, that became the planets.

The moons may be from their parent planets or from material collected by the planets.

I don't know why you try to compare that with the "flat Earth" idea.

@ArishMell Because all theories are superseded by new ones.

@sunriselover Yes, when sufficient evidence emerges to support the new ones and suggest the previous were wrong.

My understanding of the Solar System is long-established, but if you've come across some new hypothesis, can you cite it?