Only some fifty years ago no one could have imagined that it was the case. - OSHO

💙 Only some fifty years ago no one could have imagined that it was the case.

Soon after man succeeded in splitting the atom and discovering the electron, science found itself in deep water.

The behavior of the electron put scientists in great difficulty; how to describe it

Never before had science been faced with such a dilemma;

Everything was going very well, as science should go.

Everything was clear-cut, defined and logical.

But with the discovery of the electron science was confronted with a tricky problem; how to define the electron.

On being photographed sometimes
the electron appeared as a particle and sometimes it appeared as a wave.

And there is a great
difference between a particle and a wave.

If they called the electron a particle it could not be a wave, and if they called it a wave it could not be a particle.

Therefore they had to coin a new word in English to define the electron.

This new word is ”quanta”.

This word is not found in any other languages of the world,

Because they have not yet reached that depth in science.

Quanta means that which is both a particle and a wave simultaneously 💙

🔷 Osho 🔷