Does matter matter?

Answer 1

Depends if you ask a scientist or a poet (or a comedian, there's always lots of those too)

If you ask Dorye Roettger (sp?) she would say:

'The world is made of stories, not of atoms.'

Answer 2

If you read the following I think you will realize that matter matters:


Definition
Colloquially and in chemistry, matter is easy to define. Matter is the stuff which things are made of and consists of chemical substances. These are made of atoms, which are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. In this way, matter is contrasted with energy.

In physics, there is no broad consensus as to an exact definition of matter. Physicists generally do not use the word when precision is needed, prefering instead to speak of the more clearly defined concepts of mass, energy and particles.

A possible definition of matter which at least some physicists use is that it is everything that is constituted of elementary fermions. These are the leptons, including the electron, and the quarks, including the up and down quarks of which protons and neutrons are made. Since protons, neutrons and electrons combine to form atoms, atoms, molecules and the bulk substances which they make up are all matter. Matter also includes the various baryons and mesons. Things which are not matter include light (photons) and the other gauge bosons.

However, this definition is not always satisfying when examined closely. In particular, under this definition things may have mass without being matter:

W and Z bosons have mass, but are not elementary fermions.
Any two photons which are not moving parallel to each other, taken as a system, have an invariant mass.
Glueballs have mass due to their binding energy, but contain no particle with mass, nor any elementary fermions.
And they may be matter without having mass:

Most of the mass of protons and neutrons comes from the binding energy between the quarks, not the masses of the quarks themselves.
One of the three types of neutrinos may be massless.
The up quark may be massless.

Usage note regarding matter and anti-matter
There is a semantic difficulty with the word "matter", since it has two meanings, once of which includes the other. "Matter" may mean either:

The opposite of anti-matter (e.g. electrons, but not positrons)
Both matter as defined in the previous line and anti-matter (e.g. both electrons and positrons)
The same difficulty occurs with the word particle.

Answer 3

Well, imagine every matter is just like a thin piece of paper. It is either the front side and back side that you will see. Whether is a matter of matters that is depending on how we define the matter. Perhaps it is the front side of the paper, or back side of the paper. And perhaps, the back side is the pesimis answer and the front side is the optimist answer.

I guess your question is very related to the phylosophy answer i always give people during my conversation.

I TOLD ALL MY HOUSE MEMBER AND MY FRIEND THAT ' I GOT A VERY VERY GOOD NEWS'

when everybody shock and start to puzzled what the good news that i had, then i told them the good news.....

THE GOOD NEWS IS, I DO NOT HAVE BAD NEWS.

Answer 4

Ordinary matter comprises only 4% of the Universe. Dark Matter is 27%. And the rest is Dark Energy. So I suppose you could say Dark Energy matters more. But, for myself, I wouldn't want to offend any of the particles, especially the Quarks.

Answer 5

It depends. A body matters. Principles matter, but aren't matter, but deal with matter. Matter is the holding ground. So yes, matter matters, but specifically some matter matters more than others.

Answer 6

Matter matters only to those for whom only matter matters !
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Once a person's level of perception deepens beyond the sense organs, he can experientially perceive that now matter does not matter at all, and thus it is so, that only those stuck in material aspect of life, those who are right now unable to perceive beyond the sense organs are not able to rise above matters of matter !

Answer 7

Of course matters really matter! every one and everything which occupies a space and has mass is considered as a matter. then if there will be no matter then there would defintely be nothing, as in NOTHING!
Didn't you treasure this life? If not then maybe matter really doesn't matter

Answer 8

Why, what's the matter?

Answer 9

Without 'matter' we wouldn't be able to DO anything... even our bodies are classified as matter. Matter is anything we can TOUCH.

Answer 10

yes matter matters because it is still and object