To finally get a good picture of what matter is, we have to put our egos aside and realize that matter is not the primary component of the universe, matter is a

To finally get a good picture of what matter is, we have to put our egos aside and realize that matter is not the primary component of the universe, matter is a waste byproduct of the violent action going on at the subatomic level that is moving so quickly that none of our primitive sensors can even observe it coming and going. Where is it going to? Somewhere else. The analogy goes like this. When we observe matter, it is like querying a bank balance and finding $100 in the account. Now if we were to query it thousands of times a second, we would always find $100 in the account. However, if you could query the account a million times a second, sometimes you would find the bank balance as $-1000 or $1000. And even rarer still you find it at $-1million +1million. Empty space is not empty at all, it is just where the violent coming-and-going of whatever makes up matter simply averaging out as a $0 bank balance. So the energy in our sun, sending out photons is only a waste byproduct of the mysterious processes that make the universe run. I have a little pet theory that the universe itself, and the humans are just bacteria that are hanging out on the exhaust port of some super sentient being. Our entire universe, the matter we are made up of is simply echos and ripples of some vast mechanism. Here's the BBC documentary on antimatter where they explain the notion of matter and antimatter being a positive and negative bank balance (on average): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzbKrg2HIw#t=7m00s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzbKrg2HIw#t=7m00s