Quotes About Quantization

Light is not a smooth continuous stream. It is made up of a lot of quanta , little packettes of energy, so that the flow of light is lumpy. These quanta, or particles, of light are called photons. Practically everything comes in quantum of some size. This gives quantum physics its name, you know.

The entire spread-out field comes through both slits and fills the region between source and screen, but...this field must deposit its quantum of energy all at once, in a single instant, because the field cannot carry some fraction of one quantum-it must always contain either exactly one or exactly zero quanta of energy. When the field deposits its quantum of energy on the viewing screen, the entire spread-out field must instantaneously lose this much energy.

The idea that light is emitted in discrete quanta of energy related to its frequency is puzzling,

In physics the smallest doll is called the Planck length and is a millimetre divided by a 100,000 billion billion billion.

The physical substratum that determines duration and physical intervals—the gravitational field—does not only have a dynamic influenced by masses; it is also a quantum entity that does not have determined values until it interacts with something else. When it does, the durations are granular and determinate only for that something with which it interacts; they remain indeterminate for the rest of the universe.

The ordinary photon is a member of the boson family.

From a theoretical point of view, it is very hard to imagine how gravity could avoid being quantized.

Thus we see that the quantisation of atomic energies into a ladder of seperate values, rather than allowing them to take on the entire continuum of possible values, lies at the heart of the life-supporting stability and uniformity of the world around us.