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Old 31st December 2018, 08:19 AM   #44
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Quantum tunneling actually happens

As a moving particle approaches a barrier it can’t cross, uncertainty in its position means there is a chance it will already be on the other side of said barrier and keep moving as if the barrier didn’t exist at all.
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