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Energy is NOT quanta.
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Afterer Max Planck discovered that electro-magnetic radiation was conveyed in quanta of ACTION,
Einstein came along and screwed up the works, and now most people believe that light (The visual portion of the electro-magnetic spectrum.) is conveyed in quanta of energy.
Although electro-magnetic events ALWAYS occur in units of ACTION, the energy involved in an interaction is a function of the relative velocity between the source and the sink.
Einstein, like most people, was confused by the fact that when a unit of ACTION acts on an atom that has zero velocity relative to an observer that there is a 1.0000 correlation between the ACTION and the energy.
Note that when emitting atoms are moving with respect to an observer, as they are from stars and in most cases, although there is a one to one correspondence between the quanta of ACTION emitted and the quanta of ACTION received, the energy can vary considerably.
For example, if a body is moving away from the observer, there is a "red shift", and if a body is moving toward the observer, there is a "blue shift".
Epicurus, Lucretius, Newton, Maxwell and many others considered that light was conveyed as particles, and modern science has found that Nature can best be modeled as wave-like in some cases, and particle-like in some cases.
It is sad that the Mass Media has brainwashed most people to believe that events are conveyed in quanta of energy.
I suggest that inquiring folks download and read Planck's Nobel Prize lecture, where he talks about quanta of ACTION, the first, the only and the REAL quanta.
-- Tom Potter
http://www.tompotter.us
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