{"id":88803,"date":"2019-03-20T07:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/for-the-first-time-physicists-have-clocked-the-ghostly-speed-of-quantum-tunnelling"},"modified":"2019-03-20T07:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:43:14","slug":"for-the-first-time-physicists-have-clocked-the-ghostly-speed-of-quantum-tunnelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/for-the-first-time-physicists-have-clocked-the-ghostly-speed-of-quantum-tunnelling","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time, Physicists Have Clocked The Ghostly Speed of Quantum Tunnelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-physicists-have-clocked-the-ghostly-speed-of-quantum-tunnelling2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In quantum physics, particles can <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_tunnelling\">\u2019tunnel\u2019 through<\/a> seemingly impenetrable barriers, even when they apparently don\u2019t have the energy to do so. Now, researchers have gleaned behind the curtain to better understand how this trick is done.<\/p>\n<p>This problem has puzzled scientists for decades \u2013 in particular, the time it takes for particles to do their quantum tunnelling, and get from one side of a barrier to another.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the atomic hydrogen particles used in these experiments, the researchers found that it happens instantaneously.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-shed-light-on-the-mystery-of-how-particles-ghost-through-walls\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-shed-light-on-the-my...ough-walls<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In quantum physics, particles can \u2019tunnel\u2019 through seemingly impenetrable barriers, even when they apparently don\u2019t have the energy to do so. Now, researchers have gleaned behind the curtain to better understand how this trick is done. This problem has puzzled scientists for decades \u2013 in particular, the time it takes for particles to do their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88803","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\/88803","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}