As incorporated into the [[theory]] of [[quantum mechanics]], this is regarded by physicists as part of the fundamental framework for understanding and describing [[nature]] at the infinitesimal level, for the very [[practical]] [[reason]] that it works. It is "in the nature of things", not a more or less [[arbitrary]] [[human]] preference.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta] | As incorporated into the [[theory]] of [[quantum mechanics]], this is regarded by physicists as part of the fundamental framework for understanding and describing [[nature]] at the infinitesimal level, for the very [[practical]] [[reason]] that it works. It is "in the nature of things", not a more or less [[arbitrary]] [[human]] preference.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta] |