The star does not produce its own mass, by the increased influx of new material ,outside its own mass, which increases it in mass, thereby effecting it with stimuli which was not originally of its own mass. It became form outside its own mass. You can not increases your mass, unless you take on other mass from outside your self, (so put down the Twinkie) lol, just as proto-stars do in their formation, the gases and other material which it is pulling in on its self is in fact causing an effect which would not occur without the outer stimuli, of the other matter. It ain’t growing by its self

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