Word: quanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this space time world, interplaying with and complementing that supreme actual occasion, God. This is a cosmology in which there is no place for the hard, colorless, self-sufficient atoms of the past, but which grounds deep and firm the modern view that the fundamental realities are interrelated quanta events in a cosmic space time...
...mathematics, married Charlotte Tiffany Mitchell of the jeweled Tiffanys. In 1910 he went back to Cambridge, turned to astronomy. Always a theoretician rather than an observer, he published formidable papers which won him a reputation among brother scientists. Typical title: The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism; Atomicity and Quanta...
Photons and Quanta. In that same year, 1905, Einstein advanced another theory which many historians of science consider even more important than Relativity. The ether was gone, and although Relativity established the velocity of light as the firmest figure in the universe, it did not supply any medium to carry the waves of light...
...this simple but daring idea developed the supremely important knowledge that energy comes in small, discontinuous "quanta" analogous to the atoms of matter and the electrons of electricity...
...Stephens, the double-talking ex-basketball great, did himself proud at both the smoker and afterwards in Harvard Square where he occupied himself asking gendarmes where he could find the quanta obit-blah-blah-blah--and if it wasn't close by? The bobbies were befuddled no end. Anything...