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[A-Man]

vacuum fluctuations, dark energy, transiting gamma- and cosmic rays, neutrinos, along with other phenomena in quantum physics can still occur in vacuum as those things aren't made out of regular atoms and thus do not count as matter...

Not made of regular atoms? While quantum mechanics' stuff haven't been satisfying with all its wishy-washy ideas that has almost given fundamental particles "free-will", we can not just dismiss it, simply because it works. Using the Casimir effect, it was possible to actually pull a pair out of the vacuum. Regardless, the term matter, even though it can also be generally regarded as anything with mass, has been considered a loose term in Physics since the time Einstein had put forward a relation between mass and energy.

@Freaky: lol not really XD. We haven't even scratched the surface of the cool deep stuff graduate physicists are into. Ask the big guys for that matter (BP or Reaper)