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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what is matter?

OpenStudy (theeric):

Beats me. It's mysterious. All in all, we say matter has a mass, and thus experiences inertia, has momentum, and is attracted by gravity from other mass. Matter also has a wave associated with it, which describes the probability of the matter to exist in a particular location. It is sizable relative to the mass for small particles. It is extremely negligible relative to the mass for everyday objects. Mass also has a energy associated with it, described by the famous Einstein with \(E=mc^2\). I'm not a particle physicist, so I don't know a whole lot, but I plicked that up in a college course.

OpenStudy (shane_b):

Seems pretty clear to me, matter is:\[m=\frac{E}{c^2}\]:)

OpenStudy (theeric):

Haha!

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