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[-] haerrii@feddit.org 19 points 6 months ago

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

[-] BB84@mander.xyz 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] arality@programming.dev 31 points 6 months ago

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

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

[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

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

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

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

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