protomatter noun3 •The ultimate basis of physical substance, before it has been given form. •A hypothetical substance from which the universe was created.First, we have assumptions of different kinds of “protomatter,” such as electrons, protons, and neutrons. — 2012 •An unstable substance that is powerful and dangerous.No worlds, no stars, nothing but a raging sea of churning no-forms, the empty vessel of another universe eaten alive by protomatter, consumed and converted and fed upon until nothing else remained. — 2009