Alpha particle, produced by radioactive decay, electrified. Any where but
under a lot of cover, gone to space.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/phys...aParticle.html

"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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If you're talking about Fred Hoyle the astronomer, he was hardly a "loon".
And it is a reasonable question--where did the helium come from and why is
it in those deposits and no others?