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In reply to the discussion: Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here's what they found. [View all]CaptainTruth
(6,626 posts)42. Thanks for the reply. Perhaps I should have said "continuous."
Again, from the (admittedly old) books I last read, the travel of the particle was continuous down its "path." It's just that relative to our frame of reference, time & space as we perceive it, the particle experienced space differently. There was a chunk of space that we perceived (& we would have to travel through to get from Point A to Point B) that the particle didn't have to travel through. For that particle, that bit of space simply didn't exist.
And, just FYI, after I got my engineering degree & studied subatomic particle physics (general dynamics) with graduate studies in stochastic systems & probability theory, I went on to a lifetime of studying cosmology as a "hobby."
All of which makes me wonder... you correctly point out probably theory & the uncertainty principal, & it makes me wonder if what was observed wasn't tunneling at all? What if it was purely wave equations & probability? Which is why it wasn't "continuous" (instantaneous)?
I'd have to look at the width of the "barrier" & the energies involved & do some math ... just a late night thought.
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Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here's what they found. [View all]
Judi Lynn
Aug 2020
OP
From my link: "When particles are inside the barrier, they precess. Outside it, they don't."
Jim__
Aug 2020
#11
OK. I can't argue about quantum theory. But the article does talk about the velocity of the ...
Jim__
Aug 2020
#15
You clearly didn't read the article clearly. The barrier was NOT a mass. It was magnetic. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2020
#48
You claimed it was because it had mass. It does not have mass. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2020
#50
You wrote it was impossible to be in the barrier because of MASS. Further, photons aren't affected
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2020
#52
Quantum gravity not been proven, so, no, mass does not affect transmission of photons through mass.
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2020
#54
So now you are against people making "general statements" the way you made general statements.
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2020
#56
1) Rubidium atoms are not "subatomic", 2) Precession only occurs inside the barrier
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2020
#47
by the way, another experiment "Definitively" found it was near instantaneous
qazplm135
Aug 2020
#59
Richard Feynman- "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechan
TrogL
Aug 2020
#5
Interesting. According to one of the books I read (by Brian Greene? Roger Penrose?)...
CaptainTruth
Aug 2020
#27