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Reality's pixels: the universe refuses to be divided infinitely, and charges in discrete coins.
means The smallest indivisible amounts of a physical quantity, especially energy, that can exist or be exchanged.
from Plural of Latin quantum, meaning how much; Max Planck adopted it in 1900 when he reluctantly proposed energy comes in lumps, not smears.
Planck's regretHe called the idea an act of desperation.
One light quantumA photon, named later by Gilbert Lewis.
Singular formQuantum, as in the famous unsettling leap.