quanta

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Rather, it would be composed of what Rovelli calls “elementary grains” or “quanta of space.”

From New York Times

Some approaches detect the granularity of the subatomic realm, in which matter and energy come in tiny packets called quanta.

From Science Magazine

Only certain orbits were allowed, and jumping between them seemed to provide an accurate explanation for the quanta of light seen in spectroscopic emissions at least for the simple case of hydrogen.

From Scientific American

One can argue that the richest source of easily measurable biologic quanta in the human body is blood.

From Scientific American

For example, the conundrum of black-body radiation was solved by German physicist Max Planck’s hypothesis in 1900 that energy must come in quanta — minimum units that cannot be divided further.

From Nature