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Et tu, O'Brien?

I hate assholes. Noobie or veteran. You know what else I hate? A wookiee prostitution series that only lasts 5 comics. Extend that shit out to 30 or 40. And add an explanation of quantum tunneling in one of them.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

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Et tu, O'Brien?

I hate assholes. Noobie or veteran. You know what else I hate? A wookiee prostitution series that only lasts 5 comics. Extend that shit out to 30 or 40. And add an explanation of quantum tunneling in one of them.

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I'm glad you're going to do more. I dug them a lot.

I was only kidding. I just need to get off my lazy ass and read a book about it, but I'm a little burnt out at the moment. What, with all the No-Doz and hookers.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

Here is a really rough explanation. Certainly it is not the only one. Quantum tunneling is to energy what 'empty' space is to mass. On earth, friction with our atmosphere slows a vehicle down. In space there is no real friction so a vehicle can accelerate much faster and maintain that velocity with a fraction of the energy it would need if it were in our atmosphere. The result is a greater maximum velocity.

Quantum tunneling is like reduced friction only for energy. It is theorized that the universe and space itself is not empty, but filled with a Quantum 'Foam'. This foam is the constanly entropic state of all energies that have, do, and will exist. Not unlike a celestial atmosphere. Any energy passing through it adheres to a specific wavelength that limits its maximum velocity. Imagine a billards table completely filled with balls, then take a few out so that all the balls can move, but restrictively. That is the quantum foam. As a photon tries to pass through the foam, it must move around the balls. If you trace the straightest path, it would look like a wave. Up around one, down around another, etc. However, because the balls are also moving, there occur, however briefly and rarely, moments when there is a straight path to the other side. With the balls, or quantum particles, out of the way, the light has no 'atmosphere' or 'friction' to keep it's speed in check. The photon's wavelenth is shortened exponentially, and the distance it travels is compressed, allowing it to reach the other side anywhere from 3 to 300 times its normal speed.

This not only occurs in space, but can happen through solid lead blocks as well. Scientists have transmitted data though a solid wall faster than it did through open air, hypothetically because small amounts of light were crossing through quantum tunnels and traveling faster than the beam of light that was unhindered. Many scientists have disputed such research though, so Quantum Tunneling is far from proven even by theorhetical mathematics.

Anyhow, just a short and sloppy explanation from one school of thought on the subject.

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Wow, thanks man. I just created a word file out of that reply. That's by far the best explanation I've received on it. I kept hearing that through tunneling a particle trapped behind a barrier, but without the energy to break through the barrier, could still do so. I could never bend my mind around that conceptually till now. Though I do have to admit that the following sentence still makes my head spin:

I think I need about a quarter billion additional neurons firing before I can grasp that.

Somewhat off topic, but do you know if quantum tunneling is the technique they used to *seemingly* exceed the speed of light in a vacuum using that cesium solution awhile back?

I'm going to bed so don't feel you have to answer now. Or at all. :)

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

Now would you like to hear about me Quantum tunneling your mom last night?

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

She did say you were 3 to 300 times faster than normal.

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If I understand this: The light beam entering the cesium cell is made up of both high and low frequencies. A 'pulse' occurs when the highest amplitude of the component frequencies all line up. It looks like they were using the cesium vapor (plus laser beams) to reshuffle the component frequencies so as to reconstitute the pulse much sooner than it would have naturally recurred. I don't really understand how this reshuffling occurs though. But essentially they are taking advantage of the fact that all the information needed to create the pulse is already there in between the pulses and can be used to move the pulse train forward "faster than the speed of light" as some would define it. Which probably just means that definition is inadequate.

But it isn't quantum tunneling.

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That reshuffling is the part I don't get also. They talk about anomalous dispersion, but I wonder how exactly this makes "shorter wavelength components of the pulse become longer, and vice versa."

I've heard the theory of parelectric materials where you can use lasers to cause excited states that actually cause negative particles to be attracted to other negative particles. It looks like this phenomenon and the (all but frontal velocity) superluminality may both be a product of inverse populations.

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In Quantum theory, all possible states and outcomes of reality are actually occuring at the quantum level and the outcome that is most probable affects the level above it. For example, if I drop a ball, does it bounce straight up, slightly left, slightly right, etc. To quantum theory, on the quantum level, all of those outcomes are actually occuring simultaneously. However, because of the forces enacted upon it by the physical world, rotation, spin, friction, air density, the surface of the floor, only one of those quantum possibilities actually occurs in our physical world.

With the cesium gas, they are basically trying to limit the amount of possibilities from near infinite to caculable. They are adding a state of order to the chaos of quantum possibility that didnt exist previously, so the Light is able to transverse the cesium gas faster than if it were in a vaccuum, which does not hinder quantum probability.

Back to my previous example of a billard table. The cesium gas is basically forcing the balls to form multiple straight paths to the other side as opposed to one naturally occuring path by random chance that occurs with quantum tunneling.

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owch
and i considered myself a physics buff
owch
almost got it though, it just took all i had to not bludgeon myself...
the speed of light isn't a constant?
aaah!
all of time and space is unraveling!

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owch
and i considered myself a physics buff

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