Thursday, November 04, 2004

Quanta

In my Materials Science class, we took our collective fingers and dipped them gingerly into the ocean of quantum mechanics. The professor made the interesting observation that, literally, a quanta is the smallest bit of matter than can exist by itself. So when someone exclaims that "This innovation represents a quantum leap in the field of xxx," just smile and wonder why that is worth exclaiming over.

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