 Permalink for comment 556213 by roblearns on Fri 22nd Mar 2013
15:33 UTC Member since:  My understanding was that quantum is
just an adjective - allowing us to refer to the smallest
possible discrete unit of something.  So the smallest possible
unit of weight isn't 1 kilogram, because you can divide that
into grams. Any number you define can be subdivided so you have
to just bail on that scene, and just refer to quanta instead.
It's like the old child's game where you state the largest
number, and finally someone says infinity, and then someone says
infinity+1 - no dude, infinity is defined as the largest number,
and quanta as the smallest discrete unit - as the
infinitesimally small.  After this things get a bit murky, but
apparently Einsteins theory of relativity and Quantum theory
when taken together, can describe everything we know about
matter and energy.  And you have other oddities like, Einsteins
theory of relativity, Quantum Theory, and Selena Gomez, taken
together somehow predicts the popularity o