Thepaperrepresentsarigoroustreatmentoftheunderlyingquantumtheory,notjustinwordsbutprovidingtheunderlyingtechnicaldetails,astowhymatteroccupiessolargeavolumeanditsintimateconnectionwiththePauliexclusionprinciple,asmoreandmorematterisputtogether,aswellasofthecontractionorshrinkageof'bosonicmatter',uponcollapse,forwhichthePauliexclusionisabolished.Fromthederivedexplicitboundsofintegralsofpowersoftheparticlenumberdensities,explicitboundsonprobabilitiesoftheoccurrencesoftheeventsjustdescribedareextracted.Theseprobabilitiesleadonetoinferthechangeofthe'size'orextensionofsuchmatter,uponexpansionorcontraction,respectively,astheircontentisincreased.