Mass Accumulation and Condensation

The two phenomena of inertia and gravity are commonly described as mass. But mass is a pure abstraction. It doesn't exist as an identifiable physical element. It arises from the complex interaction of the charged quanta that make up atoms. Blow an atom to bits, and all that can be seen are charged bits of various sizes. No mass particle can be found, nor any inertia-particle or gravity-particle.

Charged quanta produce inertia and gravity when interacting with each other to make up matter in much the same way free moving charge produce electric current and magnetism, and free charge at rest produce electrostatics.

On the macro level, mass can grow in two ways. It can be accumulated, and it can be condensed.

Mass accumulation is achieved when a body consumes another body. When we eat a hamburger, we accumulate mass. Mass accumulation is the normal everyday way things grow. In this process, nothing mysterious is going on. This is what we all think of when we see something or someone putting on weight.

However, according to Halton Arp, there is another way things can put on weight. Instead of accumulating mass through the consumption of bits of matter, a body can put on weight through condensation. Instead of adding another body's atoms to our body, things can grow in weight by condensing charged quanta onto existing atoms.

Mass condensation is a hypothetical process in which high energy photons are absorbed as mass in the nuclei of atoms. High energy photons are known to produce electron-positron pairs in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields, typically in close vicinity of atomic nuclei. The protons and neutrons in the nuclei subsequently snap up the pairs, growing their mass in the process.

Mass condensation is a hypothetical possibility that does not violate any of the fundamental laws of physics. There is a conservation of energy throughout the process. The energy present in photons are converted to matter and consumed by the nuclei of nearby atoms.

I'm currently treating mass condensation as a real physical phenomenon, and I'm using the term consistently to mean the accumulation of mass through electron-positron consumption by atomic nuclei.

Mass condensation is a very different process than mass accumulation. While mass accumulation can be likened to us putting on weight through the consumption of hamburgers, mass condensation would be the process of laying in the sun and putting on weight by the direct conversion of photons into matter. This is beyond photosynthesis, which is a chemical process. This is a nuclear process in which charged quanta are added directly to the atomic nucleus.

Mass condensation: Small atoms + photon radiation = larger atoms