First direct view of an electron's short, speedy trip across a border

Phys.org ^ | February 11, 2019 | Glennda Chui, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Electrons traveling between two layers of atomically thin material give off tiny bursts of electromagnetic waves in the
terahertz spectral range. This glow, shown in red and blue, allowed researchers at SLAC and Stanford to observe and
track the electrons’ ultrafast movements. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

[ETL]

First direct view of an illegal immigrant's short, speedy trip across a border

[Da Coyote]

Interesting. Always wondered if the transition ‘speed’ just might exceed C.
Evidently not.
Quantum stuff is still magic.
We can work the equations, but never ever will the logic make sense.
Even Feynman said so.

[Reily]

I was told when taking QM stop trying to make sense of it. Just play the “math game” and you’ll survive!

[Pollster1]

We could build a wall to try and stop it, but electrons are capable of tunneling across a border.

[BobL]

Why did I know you’d have something when I saw that headline!

[ETL]

[BobL]

“I was told when taking QM stop trying to make sense of it. Just play the “math game” and you’ll survive!”

Pretty much found out the same thing when I entered the Z-plane. Don’t even try to understand it, instead do the numbers in there, and then come out - if you’re lucky.

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[PIF]

According to a famous set of equations named after physicist James Clerk Maxwell ...

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Actually Maxwell did not come up with those equations - all of his equations were field equations. These were drastically revised by a self taught mama’s boy, Oliver Heaviside, who altered four of them into vector equations because he believed field equations were abominations. He discarded the other 196 field equations by Maxwell.

From those four equations came all we know about the electromagnetic spectrum. Only Nicola Tesla bothered to try and understand the other 196 field equations.

[sparklite2]

Other famous last words ...

“We can never know what the stars are made of.”

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Circa 1904.

[zeestephen]

Ping

[noiseman]

First direct view of an electron’s short, speedy trip across a border”

Even Stevie Wonder could see where this thread is headed.

[P.O.E.]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ETL.

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[DesertRhino]

I had no idea electrons were Mexican.

[SunkenCiv]

I may steat that, as my Niels Bohr graphic has stopped working.

[DaxtonBrown]

Damn border jumping electrons!

I actually worked at SLAC for a short period in the neanderthal age. We were inputting the decay paths with the first computer mice (that should tell you how long ago that was).

[Redcitizen]

What Bohr said sounds like this:
Hebrews 11:3

Good News Translation

It is by faith that we understand that the universe was created by God’s word, so that what can be seen was made out of what cannot be seen.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yes, the images I was thinking of as well.