CHAPTER SEVEN

There is a FOURTH STATE OF MATTER, called plasma. It is the kind of "gas" we find within the interior of the sun and other typical stars. This plasma obeys normal gas laws, but the actual form of the gas does not consist of atoms, but rather of a gas of electrons and ions (atomic remains when electrons are stripped off) can be said that there is actually one additional state of matter.

Perhaps we might even want to add another state of matter in between they plasma and this state when we learn more about the actual nature of atoms and nuclei themselves. This state could be called Primordial Soup, a system of particles, no longer atoms or even nuclei of atoms, but a mixture of the basic building blocks of the "things" that go together to make the simplest elements of matter.