Question: What Are 10 Examples of Things That Are Not Matter?

Everything that has mass and takes up space is matter yet some things do not consist of matter!
"ere is a list of 10 examples of non#matter! $asically any type of energy or any a%stract concept
is an example of something that is not matter!
Answer:
1! time
&! sound
'! sunlight
(! rain%o)
*! love
+! thoughts
,! gravity
-! micro)aves
.! heat
10! memories
11! information
1&! reflections
1'! energy
Antimatter
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Antimatter
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4n particle physics antimatter is material composed of antiparticles )hich have the same mass
as particles of ordinary matter %ut have opposite charge and other particle properties such as
lepton and %aryon num%er! Encounters %et)een particles and antiparticles lead to the
annihilation of %oth giving rise to varying proportions of high#energy photons 0gamma rays1
neutrinos and lo)er#mass particle5antiparticle pairs! 6etting aside the mass of any product
neutrinos )hich represent released energy )hich generally continues to %e unavaila%le the end
result of annihilation is a release of energy availa%le to do )ork proportional to the total matter
and antimatter mass in accord )ith the mass#energy e7uivalence e7uation E8mc
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Antiparticles %ind )ith each other to form antimatter 9ust as ordinary particles %ind to form
normal matter! /or example a positron 0the antiparticle of the electron1 and an antiproton can
form an antihydrogen atom! :hysical principles indicate that complex antimatter atomic nuclei
are possi%le as )ell as anti#atoms corresponding to the kno)n chemical elements! To date
ho)ever anti#atoms more complex than antihelium have neither %een artificially produced nor
o%served in nature! 6tudies of cosmic rays have identified %oth positrons and antiprotons
presuma%ly produced %y high#energy collisions %et)een particles of ordinary matter!
There is considera%le speculation as to )hy the o%serva%le universe is apparently composed
almost entirely of ordinary matter as opposed to a more symmetric com%ination of matter and
antimatter! This asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visi%le universe is one of the greatest
unsolved pro%lems in physics!
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The process %y )hich this asymmetry %et)een particles and
antiparticles developed is called %aryogenesis!
Antimatter in the form of anti#atoms is one of the most difficult materials to produce! Antimatter
in the form of individual anti#particles ho)ever is commonly produced %y particle accelerators
and in some types of radioactive decay!
Matter
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This article is a%out the concept in the physical sciences! /or other uses see Matter
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Matter
Matter is usually classified into three classical states
)ith plasma sometimes added as a fourth state! /rom
top to %ottom; 7uart< 0solid1 )ater 0li7uid1 nitrogen
dioxide 0gas1 and a plasma glo%e 0plasma1!
Matter is a loosely defined term in science 0see definitions %elo)1! The term often refers to a
su%stance 0often a particle1 that has rest mass! Matter is also used loosely as a general term for
the su%stance that makes up all o%serva%le physical o%9ects!
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All o%9ects )e see )ith the naked eye are composed of atoms! This atomic matter is in turn made
up of interacting su%atomic particles=usually a nucleus of protons and neutrons and a cloud of
or%iting electrons!
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Typically science considers these composite particles matter %ecause they
have %oth rest mass and volume! $y contrast massless particles such as photons are not
considered matter %ecause they have neither rest mass nor volume! "o)ever not all particles
)ith rest mass have a classical volume since fundamental particles such as 7uarks and leptons
0sometimes e7uated )ith matter1 are considered >point particles> )ith no effective si<e or
volume! Nevertheless 7uarks and leptons together make up >ordinary matter> and their
interactions contri%ute to the effective volume of the composite particles that make up ordinary
matter!
Matter commonly exists in four states 0or phases1; solid li7uid and gas and plasma! "o)ever
advances in experimental techni7ues have revealed other previously theoretical phases such as
$ose5Einstein condensates and fermionic condensates! A focus on an elementary#particle vie)
of matter also leads to ne) phases of matter such as the 7uark5gluon plasma!
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/or much of the
history of the natural sciences people have contemplated the exact nature of matter! The idea that
matter )as %uilt of discrete %uilding %locks the so#called particulate theory of matter )as first
put for)ard %y the ?reek philosophers @eucippus 0A(.0 $B1 and Cemocritus 0A(,05'-0 $B1!
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Al%ert Einstein sho)ed
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that ultimately all matter is capa%le of %eing converted to energy
0kno)n as mass5energy e7uivalence1 %y the famous formula E = mc
2
)here E is the energy of a
piece of matter of mass m times c
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the speed of light s7uared! As the speed of light is
&..,.&(*- metres per second 01-+&-& miDs1 a relatively small amount of matter may %e
converted to a large amount of energy! An example is that positrons and electrons 0matter1 may
transform into photons 0non#matter1! "o)ever although matter may %e created or destroyed in
such processes neither the 7uantity of mass or energy change during the process!
Matter should not %e confused )ith mass as the t)o are not 7uite the same in modern physics!
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/or example mass is a conserved 7uantity )hich means that its value is unchanging through
time )ithin closed systems! "o)ever matter is not conserved in such systems although this is
not o%vious in ordinary conditions on Earth )here matter is approximately conserved! 6till
special relativity sho)s that matter may disappear %y conversion into energy even inside closed
systems and it can also %e created from energy )ithin such systems! "o)ever %ecause mass
0like energy1 can neither %e created nor destroyed the 7uantity of mass and the 7uantity of
energy remain the same during a transformation of matter 0)hich represents a certain amount of
energy1 into non#material 0i!e! non#matter1 energy! This is also true in the reverse transformation
of energy into matter!
Cifferent fields of science use the term matter in different and sometimes incompati%le )ays!
6ome of these )ays are %ased on loose historical meanings from a time )hen there )as no
reason to distinguish mass and matter! As such there is no single universally agreed scientific
meaning of the )ord >matter!> 6cientifically the term >mass> is )ell#defined %ut >matter> is not!
6ometimes in the field of physics >matter> is simply e7uated )ith particles that exhi%it rest mass
0i!e! that cannot travel at the speed of light1 such as 7uarks and leptons! "o)ever in %oth
physics and chemistry matter exhi%its %oth )ave#like and particle#like properties the so#called
)ave5particle duality!
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