{"id":189865,"date":"2024-05-22T05:24:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T10:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/quantum-tunnels-allow-particles-to-break-the-light-speed-barrier"},"modified":"2024-05-22T05:24:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T10:24:52","slug":"quantum-tunnels-allow-particles-to-break-the-light-speed-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/quantum-tunnels-allow-particles-to-break-the-light-speed-barrier","title":{"rendered":"Quantum tunnels allow particles to break the light-speed barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-tunnels-allow-particles-to-break-the-light-speed-barrier2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the fascinating realm of quantum physics, particles seem to defy the laws of classical mechanics, exhibiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/impossibility-paradox-calculating-incalculable-quantum-realm-particles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mind-bending phenomena<\/a> that challenge our understanding of the universe. One such phenomenon is quantum tunneling.<\/p>\n<p>In quantum tunnels, particles appear to move faster than the speed of light, seemingly breaking the fundamental rules set by Einstein\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/radical-new-theory-finally-unites-gravity-spacetime-and-the-quantum-realm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">theory of relativity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, a group of physicists from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tu-darmstadt.de\/index.en.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TU Darmstadt<\/a> has proposed a new method to measure the time it takes for particles to tunnel, suggesting that previous experiments may have been inaccurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fascinating realm of quantum physics, particles seem to defy the laws of classical mechanics, exhibiting mind-bending phenomena that challenge our understanding of the universe. One such phenomenon is quantum tunneling. In quantum tunnels, particles appear to move faster than the speed of light, seemingly breaking the fundamental rules set by Einstein\u2019s theory of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}