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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Einstein's paper showed that you could directly observe individual quanta .
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He called these bundles of energy quanta .
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However later investigations showed that the quanta were indeed persistent.
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The quanta are individually so small that their interactions, statistically averaged, appear continuous.
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The quantum model in physics contains the possibility that individual quanta can be at different energy levels.
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This indicates an increase in the mean number of quanta released per trial.
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You would still have the problem of needing a large gamma ray detector to observe several gamma ray quanta from the explosion.