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The word ‘quantum’ means ‘a quantity’ or ‘a discrete amount’. On an everyday scale we are accustomed to the idea that the properties of an object such as its size, weight, colour, temperature, surface area, and motion are all qualities which can vary from one object to another in a smooth and continuous way. Apples, for example, come in all manner of shapes, sizes and colours without any noticeable gradations in between.
Chapter 1 in P.C.W. Dairies and J. R. Brown (eds), The Ghost in the Atom. A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 1–39.
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Davies, P.C.W., Brown, J.R. (1974). The Strange World of the Quantum. In: Tauber, A.I. (eds) Science and the Quest for Reality. Main Trends of the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25249-7_4
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