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mostly empty space pretending to be a chair you can sit on
means The physical stuff that things are made of — anything with mass that takes up space — or, as a verb, to be of importance.
from From Latin 'materia,' meaning building material or timber, which itself grew from 'mater,' mother — the idea being the source-stuff from which things are made. It reached English through Old French 'matiere.' The 'to be important' sense is a later branch: if something is 'a matter,' it's a thing of substance worth attending to.
- actual stuff
- atoms are 99.9999 percent void
- rare flavor
- ordinary matter is under 5 percent of cosmos
- einstein receipt
- it's just frozen energy waiting to unfreeze
- you, specifically
- made of atoms forged inside dead stars
- states
- plasma outnumbers solid, liquid, gas combined
dark matter — comprises 27% of the universe's mass-energy content, detected through gravitational effects on galaxies
bose-einstein condensate — state of matter created at temperatures near absolute zero, first achieved in 1995 with rubidium atoms
degenerate matter — neutron star material where electrons merge with protons, found in pulsars like psr b1919+21