Quantum tunnelling is when a particle breaks past or “tunnels” through
what is supposed to be an impassable, impenetrable, and insurmountable
solid barrier. Think of a ghost passing through a concrete wall, for
example.
Quantum tunnelling, similar to other “spooky”
observations in quantum mechanics, is extremely hard to wrap our minds
around. It’s one of multiple observations in the field that show what we
think is impossible, is actually probable.
These observations
happen at the subatomic level because quantum mechanics observes matter
in its smallest form, where we often see strange and unexplainable
things happen. It’s commonly believed that the ‘rules’ and physical laws
don’t apply to matter at the quantum scale as they do at what’s known
at the classical scale. In other words, just because particles have been
observed passing through impenetrable barriers at the quantum level, it
does not mean human beings can walk through walls or that solid objects
can pass through them. Or does it? After all, we are all made up of
subatomic particles, aren’t we? There has been evidence that large
physical objects can also pass through spatial barriers. ‘Paranormal’
events may, in some way, be connected to what we see in quantum
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