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...many, General Smuts's scientific philosophy is comfortingly anthropocentric. The universe of 20th Century physics he accepts completely. It is for him a stupendous organization of atoms, electrons, protons, radiations and quanta. From this "uncertain nebulous underworld, there seems to crystallize out, or literally to materialize, the macroscopic world. . . . We rise to new levels as later on we pass from the physical to the biological level, and again from the latter to the conscious mind. But-and this is the significant fact-all these levels are genetically related and form an evolutionary series; and underlying the differences...
Light is a stream of particles, which may be called quanta or photons. Each particle twirls as it moves away from its source...
...Nature's great book is written in mathematical language.' So true is it that no one except a mathematician need ever hope fully to understand those branches of science which try to un ravel universe-the theory fundamental of nature of relativity, the the theory of quanta and the wave-mechanics...
Albert Einstein now applies it himself to explain earthly physical activities-the pull of gravity, the pulsations of electromagnetic waves or quanta...
Split Quantum. One theory of matter is the quantum theory? that all things, all radiations are built up of quanta, or trifling pulsations of energy. Light is thus considered the effect of many quanta popping after one another. Dr. A. J. Dempter of the University of Chicago told how he had directed the light from a single vibrating atom at a thinly silvered mirror. In theory a single file of quanta battered at the mirror. Part of these reflected away, part passed through, just as would ordinary light. Possibly, thought Dr. Dempter, the quantum, smallest theoretical unit, was split into...