daniellejean wrote:to the first quote: physics, but not of the quantum variety as you are not dealing with electrons and neutrons making leaps from one orbit of a molecule to another.
to the second: philosophy
Everything is steeped in shades of gray that have black and white as their source. Yes, it is inevitably and inexorably quantized, philosophy not withstanding.
Philosophy, as rendered by the plethora of feeble minds that constitute the background noise of existence, has no plausible and sustainable reference within the context of our temporal reality.