Word: quantas
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...Princeton, they consider me an old fool." He had earned this new reputation by his continued objections to what had become the basic conceptual tool for studying atomic structure: quantum mechanics, a statistical way of looking at the atom that Einstein himself had helped develop by using Planck's quanta to explain the nature of light...
...Science and Technology suggests that Einstein's dream of a unified field theory may some day be realized. There is also a glimmer in the esoteric new work on such baffling mathematical concepts as "supergravity" and "twistors" of possibly achieving a union of Einstein's beloved relativity and the quanta that he so distrusted...
...regularly can be a chore, no matter how beloved. And, given the current state of the art and product, it's difficult keeping open to new possibilities without allowing a tide of garbage to jade one's eye and soul. The three films under consideration have each aroused great quanta of controversy. Each, however, is in its own way so dulling, that dismissal would seem the proper treatment were one not committed otherwise. Thus, be forewarned that all the values named are relative...
Harvard's varsity soccer team jumped to a quick 2-0 lead against Brown on Saturday, completely dominated the third quanta, and held off several last-minute Bruin threats to clinch the Ivy championship with a 2-1 victory on the Business School field...
...around the sun; they could not account for the subtle behavior of electrons whirling around the nucleus of an atom. Trying to work their way out of this quandary, Born and other scientists held that the motion of the electron was discontinuous or broken into pockets of energy called quanta. Others conceived of electrons as continuous, uninterrupted waves. Though these theories helped explain atomic phenomena, they could not tell physicists where an individual electron might be located at any given instant...