quanta

• energy only released in

42:4.13The rel­a­tive in­tegrity of mat­ter is as­sured by the fact that en­ergy can be ab­sorbed or re­leased only in those ex­act amounts which Uran­tia sci­en­tists have des­ig­nated quanta. This wise pro­vi­sion in the ma­te­rial realms serves to main­tain the uni­verses as go­ing con­cerns.

42:4.14The quan­tity of en­ergy taken in or given out when elec­tronic or other po­si­tions are shifted is al­ways a “quan­tum” or some mul­ti­ple thereof, but the vi­bra­tory or wave­like be­hav­ior of such units of en­ergy is wholly de­ter­mined by the di­men­sions of the ma­te­rial struc­tures con­cerned. Such wave­like en­ergy rip­ples are 860 times the di­am­e­ters of the ul­ti­ma­tons, elec­trons, atoms, or other units thus per­form­ing. The never-end­ing con­fu­sion at­tend­ing the ob­ser­va­tion of the wave me­chan­ics of quan­tum be­hav­ior is due to the super­im­po­si­tion of en­ergy waves: Two crests can com­bine to make a dou­ble-height crest, while a crest and a trough may com­bine, thus pro­duc­ing mu­tual can­cel­la­tion.

• energy only released in

42:5.64. The elec­tronic stage. This stage of en­ergy is the ba­sis of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion in the seven super­uni­verses. When elec­trons pass from higher to lower en­ergy lev­els of or­bital rev­o­lu­tion, quanta are al­ways given off. Or­bital shift­ing of elec­trons re­sults in the ejec­tion or the ab­sorp­tion of very def­i­nite and uni­form mea­sur­able par­ti­cles of light-en­ergy, while the in­di­vid­ual elec­tron al­ways gives up a par­ti­cle of light-en­ergy when sub­jected to col­li­sion. Wave­like en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions also at­tend upon the per­for­mances of the pos­i­tive bod­ies and the other mem­bers of the elec­tronic stage.