Today scientists recognize mainly four forms of matter-solid,liquid,gas and plasma (which lies at a sort of transition state between energy and matter and exists in stars, etc). Apart from this, energy is also considered a form of matter (or vice-versa) after Einstein proved energy and matter could be interconverted through the famous formula E=mc2.Hindu texts state that the World is made of five elements (PanchaTatva): Earth (Bhoomi), Water(jal),air(vayu), Fire(agni) and Sky (aakash).Soil, water, air and fire describes the scientific forms of matter - solid, liquid, gas and energy, while the fifth Hindu element - sky - might describe vacuum - nothing but empty space, or even ether, a hypothesized fluid said to span the entire universe.Thus the forms of matter are covered in the Panchatatva
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