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teaearlgraycold on March 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did ...

To be fair quantum mechanics was invented by guessing that energy might be quantized. It just happened to model the universe well.

oneshtein on March 17, 2025 [–]

Waves are quantized (one wave, two waves, ...), so energy transfers by waves are quantized too.

teaearlgraycold on March 19, 2025 | [–]

What you are describing is periodicity. That’s different from quantization.

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