{"id":90833,"date":"2019-05-17T08:33:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T15:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/quantum-tunneling-is-near-instantaneous-experiments-show"},"modified":"2019-05-17T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T15:33:29","slug":"quantum-tunneling-is-near-instantaneous-experiments-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/quantum-tunneling-is-near-instantaneous-experiments-show","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Tunneling is Near Instantaneous, Experiments Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-tunneling-is-near-instantaneous-experiments-show.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_tunnelling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tunneling<\/a>, a key feature of quantum mechanics, is when a particle that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/physics\/quantum-tunneling-water-05422.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encounters<\/a> a seemingly insurmountable barrier passes through it, ending up on the other side. A series of experiments carried out by physicists from Griffith University, Lanzhou University, the Australian National University, Drake University and Korea\u2019s Institute for Basic Science has definitively determined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0370157314003159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tunneling delay<\/a>, which is also the time it takes for an electron to get out or ionize from a hydrogen atom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/physics\/quantum-tunneling-07016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunneling, a key feature of quantum mechanics, is when a particle that encounters a seemingly insurmountable barrier passes through it, ending up on the other side. A series of experiments carried out by physicists from Griffith University, Lanzhou University, the Australian National University, Drake University and Korea\u2019s Institute for Basic Science has definitively determined the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90833","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\/90833","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}