quanta

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At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

While photons are routinely created and measured in laboratories all over the world, individual quanta of vibrations, which are the corresponding particles of sound, phonons, cannot in general be similarly measured.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2023

Quantum theory typically deals with the universe in tiny chunks, or quanta, while general relativity takes the cosmos to be continuous even at the smallest scales.

From Scientific American • Aug. 19, 2023

General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk, showed the physics world that nature worked in quanta rather than in smooth increments.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife