Halton Arp and the Expanding Earth

Unfortunately for expanding Earth enthusiasts like myself, who believe that our planet is expanding and that gravity has changed as a consequence, there is nothing in Halton Arp's variable mass hypothesis that suggests that an expanding planet would gain in gravity or visa versa.

Halton Arp's variable mass requires no change in volume.

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The reason for this is that Halton Arp's added mass comes in the form of condensation onto existing atoms. No new atoms are created. The nucleus of existing atoms grow, but that does not result in atoms gaining in volume. The nucleus of an atom takes up very little space. Adding to it will not make the atom as a whole any bigger.

If there is a connection between Halton Arp's variable mass and the expanding Earth, it is not a direct one. However, there are at least two indirect relationships that may explain the high correlation between Earth's diameter and surface gravity, deduced from fossil records.

One possible reason for the expansion could be that matter becomes radioactive when their nucleus grow too massive to stay together. As the nucleus of atoms grow larger, elements that once were stable and neutral become radioactive. They fall apart, and this process results in an increase in volume. Where there was once one heavy atom, there is suddenly two lighter ones.

Another possible reason for expansion could be purely mechanical. If gravity is a dipole, then chances are that planets are hollow. This would make it possible for a planet to start cracking and expanding due to internal pressures. It would also mean that the crust of our planet is a capacitor. If always fully charged, the internals of our planet would have a voltage potential that would increase if it were to expand.

A high voltage environment happens to be the conditions in which electron positron pairs can be created from high energy photons like x-rays. It may also be the condition in which the nucleus of atoms are at their most receptive for condensation. In that case, an expanding planet will speed up the process of condensation.

The process of condensation is not in itself the cause of expansion. Expansion is either due to increasing radioactivity, or due to internal pressures that have nothing to do with condensation, but happen to improve the conditions for condensation.

There might of course be other ways that Halton Arp's variable mass can be related to the expanding Earth. But there does not seem to be any direct link between the two phenomena.