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There is a lot of pseudoscience stuff going on here, but the story mentions P.A.M. Dirac and his idea that a vacuum is an infinite sea of particles with negative energy - the Dirac sea. The positron, the antimatter counterpart of the electron, was originally conceived of as a hole in the Dirac sea, before its experimental discovery in 1932.
These ideas seem to be referenced in this story, making it the first science fiction story about antimatter. Maybe.
The story mentions a "cinder sun" made of regular matter, that approached our sun and tore stuff out of its core, which has who-knows-what exotic properties. Maybe even antimatter?
The positron is actually used in a 1934 story by Nat Schachner; see positron beam from The Great Thirst.
Another mention of antimatter is found in Minus Planet, a 1937 story by John D. Clark, Ph.D.; see the entry for antron. See also contraterrene matter from Collision Orbit (1942) by Jack Williamson.
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