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The quantum and its discontents. Scientist and explorers such as Odysseus and Marco Polo and Columbus returned home as changed men. A German physicist Max Planck, had proposed that matter and radiation are not absolutely continuous. Planck concluded that the energy in all electromagnetic waves exist in the form of tiny, discrete amounts, or quanta. In 1900 Plank published his conclusions, which applied to heat, light, and radio waves. In 1905 Einstein seconded this insight, affirming that light could be understood as a collection of discrete quanta later dubbed "photons." Werner Heisenberg seemed to prove Bohr’s picture of particles leaping from fixed orbit with a series of complex equation. "Heisenberg showed that we can never know everything about the behavior of even one particle, much less myriad’s of them, and, therefore, can never make predictions about the future, that will be completely accurate in every detail." "This marked a fundamental change in the world view of physics. It revealed that not only matter and energy but knowledge itself is quantized. "A few physicists became so frustrated that they quit science altogether." "It was turmoil and confusion and not calm assurance that marked the growth of the mind, and