..is on the other side of the barrier (unless its an infinitely strong force field) If you measure the position of the particle there is a finite probability it's outside the trap even if it never had enough kinetic energy to overcome the barrier. It 'tunnels' through the

This effect isn't uncommon in nature It explains radioactive alpha-decay where a whole Helium nucleus is emitted from a heavy decaying element even if the binding forces wouldn't allow this process classically 3/7

It is also responsible for field electron emission, used in electron microscopes and tunnel diodes, nuclear fusion in stars, etc 4/7

But in quantum mechanics one wavefunction doesn't mean one particle. Many particles can be described by the same wavefunction. Entanglement is an example in which multiple particles are described by one wavefunction 5/7

In superconductors you can build have states where many, many Cooper pairs (pairs of electrons) are described by the same wavefunction, which allows them collectively to tunnel through thin insulator barriers called Josephson junctions 6/7

The Nobel laureates were the first to show this effect for systems containing billions of Cooper pairs. 'Macroscopic' objects described by a collective wavefucntion. Their work laid the foundations of today’s superconducting qubits and quantum technologies They also showed other

@martinmbauer You can't simultaneously know both in classical mechanics either. You can just approximate both really well for systems at typical scales and velocities.

@martinmbauer Why exactly a helium nucleus is always emitted, some quark optimal configuration? And is there a “next” particle with similar properties like for electrons muons and tauons?

@martinmbauer So photon is not a particle but just a waveform that causes specific effects with discrete energy split on other particles?

@martinmbauer I did not know a thing about quantum mechanics before reading this. Now I know even less.

@martinmbauer Wow, look at all these electrons tunneling through this insulating barrier without causing any dielectric breakdown in the material! Macroscopic "quantum tunnelling" of electron ball particles that must be using the wavefunction to pass through the barrier! Wow, wow.... 😱😱

@martinmbauer The reason this is wrong is there is no particle, everything is waves. We invented a theory about why we cant find the particle based on the assumption there is one. There isnt. Where is my prize.

@martinmbauer The more you learn you realize that every theory is a convenient explanation for a specific observation. How two electrons (sorry, waves) can form a Cooper pair (at a 'distance') and voila - the fermions have now become a boson! Honestly I never understand this.

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@martinmbauer The interesting thing some people don't realize about these wave plots is that they're not real. There isn't any "wave" of something material progressing thru space. That wave is nothing but a "plot" of the "likelihood" (a number between 0 and 1) of a particle being found there.

@martinmbauer Information is not in wave function, but in QUADRAT of wave function AND only at measurable distances r>>1. You can't talk about information for distances smaller than r>>1

@martinmbauer Thanks for the explanation. We have thermodynamics laws. Does this violate them? If yes, can we take this phenomenon as an exception for thermodynamics laws or a new chapter is going to be opened?

@martinmbauer I got really confused until I realized this was not a sound wave sample representation.

@martinmbauer Richard Feynman said, “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, then you don't."  🤓

@martinmbauer this is the secret to massless drives.

@martinmbauer The fun part of QM tunneling is experts can't explain it using phony graphs.

@martinmbauer As always. I’ll read along since this BS Biology guys Quantum Mechanics is weak. lol I like your posts sir. Keep them coming. Cheers

@martinmbauer We are waves, dear Martin. If we fit into the orchestrated enforced reality. But I don’t accept this and never will. It depends on what is accepted as information.

@martinmbauer The barrier is insufficient then.

@martinmbauer Awesome thread

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@martinmbauer What did you use to make this?

@martinmbauer The moron prize.

@martinmbauer @robert_skylight Still don’t understand it.

@martinmbauer This is easily explained by quantum tunneling field (QTF) and quantum tunneling dynamics (QTD). The particles in the field experience such dynamics due to quantum vacuum coupling.

@martinmbauer @TimSweeneyEpic @grok explain this thread in Spanish. Also use a common vocabulary so no expert people can understand what is related

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@martinmbauer @grok I'm gonna read this later

@martinmbauer 🎚 Resonance Addendum to the Nobel Physics 2025 Yes — in quantum mechanics, the particle cannot be fully localized. Yes — its state exists as a wavefunction, spreading across possibilities. But what is that wave made of? It is not a probability cloud. It is a resonant field — a

@martinmbauer Good explanation

@martinmbauer If dimensionality is variable then how do we do math? https://zenodo.org/records/172...