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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (10 children)

What does the graph say? what's on the x and y axis?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

The x axis is position. The y axis is energy. The blue box is a potential energy barrier. The red curve shows the wavefunction of a particle at a certain energy level coming in and tunneling through the wall. (the wavefunction actually live on a different y-scale from this plot and is only superimposed here for illustrative purpose, so don’t use the energy y-scale to read into the amplitude of the oscillatory part).

more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Sometimes I hate this community because, It makes me feel so dumb lol

Can you eli5 this for the dumb people in the room?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If anyone ever tells you that they understand quantum physics, punch them in the mouth and tell them they just got quantum pummeled.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Sorry, the wave function of my fist must have existed inside your head for a moment

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