English Dictionary

protomatter

名詞

不可算名詞

(philosophy) The ultimate basis of physical substance, before it has been given form. / (physics) A hypothetical substance from which the universe is created.

日本語の意味

（哲学）形が与えられる前の物理物質の究極的な基盤 / （物理学）宇宙創生の仮説上の物質

The philosopher proposed that protomatter is the ultimate basis of physical substance, existing prior to any form.

その哲学者は、形を与えられる前の原初の物質が物質的実体の究極的基盤であると提案した。

意味（1）

(philosophy) The ultimate basis of physical substance, before it has been given form.

Perhaps the last named, mass-energy, comes closest to converying the Aristotelian idea of protomatter as the basic stuff of the universe. Whatever quarks may be, or leptons and hadrons in their various forms, it seems generally agreed that all are manifestations of mass-energy, the ultimate matrix to which science seems to have come in identifying the material cause of the universe.

意味（2）

(physics) A hypothetical substance from which the universe is created.

It is possible that the two principal alternative conceptions of the inexhaustibility of the microworld (an infinite linear hierarchy of structures or some primordial entity infinite in itself— single protomatter or an infinite number of simplest and equally elementary constituents) do not exhaust all approaches that are feasible here.

意味（3）

(science fiction) An unstable substance that is powerful and dangerous.

The No Damage option occurs when the computers are directed to control the protomatter environment from directly harming the user. This is because MegaCorps prefer their executives alive rather than dead.