quanta

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For example, the conundrum of black-body radiation was solved by German physicist Max Planck’s hypothesis in 1900 that energy must come in quanta — minimum units that cannot be divided further.

From Nature

It’s the world, not the numbers, not its quanta, we experience.

From Los Angeles Times

After a tantalizing chapter on scale, he analyses space, time, energy, matter, quanta, thermodynamics and various attempts to unify the general theory of relativity with quantum field theory — although he never defines a black hole.

From Nature

At one level, we can describe a black hole as viewed from a distance: the black hole is formed by collapse of matter, which eventually evaporates leaving the quanta of Hawking radiation in space.

From Scientific American

If you watch real politicians walk into a room, if they shake 100 hands, somehow a small quanta of energy goes from each hand into them.

From Washington Post