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The term protomatter may reference: in programming, a Java logging framework; in cosmology, a theoretical primordial plasma, ylem, in the Big-Bang generation of matter;
The term comes from an obsolete Middle English philosophical word that Alpher said he found in Webster's dictionary. [5] The word means something along the lines of "primordial substance from which all matter is formed" (that in ancient mythology of many different cultures was called the cosmic egg [6]) and ultimately derives from the hūlē (Ancient Greek: ὕλη), probably through an ...
Alchemical authors used similes to describe the universal nature of the prima materia. Arthur Edward Waite states that all alchemical writers concealed its "true name". Since the prima materia has all the qualities and properties of elementary things, the names of all kinds of things were assigned to it. [5]
Matter is a general term describing any physical substance, which is sometimes defined in incompatible ways in different fields of science. Some definitions are based on historical usage from a time when there was no reason to distinguish mass from simply a quantity of matter.
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Protomatter is a key component of the Genesis Device prototype—an experimental terraformation device introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Protomatter is presented as an unstable substance that, due to its instability, is considered unethical for usage in scientific research.