Energy—Mind and Matter

42:3.1Mat­ter in all uni­verses, ex­cept­ing in the cen­tral uni­verse, is iden­ti­cal. Mat­ter in its phys­i­cal prop­er­ties de­pends on the rev­o­lu­tion­ary rates of its com­po­nent mem­bers, the num­ber and size of the re­volv­ing mem­bers, their dis­tance from the nu­clear body or the space con­tent of mat­ter, as well as on the pres­ence of cer­tain forces as yet undis­cov­ered on Uran­tia.

42:3.2In the var­ied suns, plan­ets, and space bod­ies there are ten grand di­vi­sions of mat­ter:

42:3.31. Ul­ti­ma­tonic mat­ter—the prime phys­i­cal units of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence, the en­ergy par­ti­cles which go to make up elec­trons.

42:3.42. Sub­elec­tronic mat­ter—the ex­plo­sive and re­pel­lent stage of the so­lar super­gases.

42:3.53. Elec­tronic mat­ter—the elec­tri­cal stage of ma­te­rial dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion—elec­trons, pro­tons, and var­i­ous other units en­ter­ing into the var­ied con­sti­tu­tion of the elec­tronic groups.

42:3.64. Sub­atomic mat­ter—mat­ter ex­ist­ing ex­ten­sively in the in­te­rior of the hot suns.

42:3.75. Shat­tered atoms—found in the cool­ing suns and through­out space.

42:3.86. Ion­ized mat­ter—in­di­vid­ual atoms stripped of their outer (chem­i­cally ac­tive) elec­trons by elec­tri­cal, ther­mal, or X-ray ac­tiv­i­ties and by sol­vents.

42:3.97. Atomic mat­ter—the chem­i­cal stage of el­e­men­tal or­ga­ni­za­tion, the com­po­nent units of molec­u­lar or vis­i­ble mat­ter.

42:3.108. The molec­u­lar stage of mat­ter—mat­ter as it ex­ists on Uran­tia in a state of rel­a­tively sta­ble ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion un­der or­di­nary con­di­tions.

42:3.119. Ra­dioac­tive mat­ter—the dis­or­ga­niz­ing ten­dency and ac­tiv­ity of the heav­ier el­e­ments un­der con­di­tions of mod­er­ate heat and di­min­ished grav­ity pres­sure.

42:3.1210. Col­lapsed mat­ter—the rel­a­tively sta­tion­ary mat­ter found in the in­te­rior of the cold or dead suns. This form of mat­ter is not re­ally sta­tion­ary; there is still some ul­ti­ma­tonic even elec­tronic ac­tiv­ity, but these units are in very close prox­im­ity, and their rates of rev­o­lu­tion are greatly di­min­ished.

42:3.13The fore­go­ing clas­si­fi­ca­tion of mat­ter per­tains to its or­ga­ni­za­tion rather than to the forms of its ap­pear­ance to cre­ated be­ings. Nei­ther does it take into ac­count the pre-emer­gent stages of en­ergy nor the eter­nal ma­te­ri­al­iza­tions on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse.