Are you saying electrons can telepport?

( girlinthehole, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:47, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I think it's something to do with the fact that
subatomic particles don't really exist in a place so much as have the possibility to exist in many places in a kind of probability wave.

That whole thing with neutinos going FTL might be like teleporting, though, in the sense that during their trip it's being hypothesised that they took a shortcut through the 4th spacial dimension :o
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:51, Reply)

Que?

( girlinthehole, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:53, Reply)

which bit?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:53, Reply)

All of it.

( girlinthehole, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:54, Reply)

I think it means
SCIENCE IS ACE!

as long as you don't have to do the fiddly bits like working out the maths and what is means in real life
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 18:57, Reply)

I think he's talking about the tunneling effect
which is a quantum mechanical effect. It means that electrons can pass through barriers which classically they shouldn't be able to.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Sun 9 Oct 2011, 19:21, Reply)