Matter

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Matter is the basic term for all physical substances.

Matter can exist in a number of states; Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma (most common), quark-gluon plasma; Bose-Einstein condensates and fermionic condensates; quantum spin Hall state; degenerate matter; strange matter; superfluids and supersolids; and possibly string-net liquids.

As can it's negative counterpart Antimatter, when matter and antimatter come into contact they create a highly energetic reaction, this reaction is used by many species to power their warp drives. ^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Connections

matter • energy
States of matter:	solid • liquid • gas • plasma
Types of matter:	antimatter • dark matter • protomatter

• Matter article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Matter article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.