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Matter

The main component of bodies, capable of taking on all kinds of forms and undergoing change, characterized by a set of physical and chemical properties perceptible through the senses. The material or physical part of reality, as opposed to spirit. An eternal emanation of particles that can be organized and disorganized. It is made up of three elementary particles: the proton, the electron, and the neutron. It is a point where energy becomes denser. The matter of the Universe neither increases nor decreases; it only transforms. It is eternal.

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