In reply to Axil Axil's message of Mon, 12 Jun 2017 01:25:05 -0400: Hi, My point was that if particles could pass through one another like superposing waves do, then the particles of your head should be able to pass through the particles in the wall without resistance. You stated that particles were waves, and drew a picture of them passing through one another like superposing waves.
>We were talking about a particle passing through a wall not superposition. > >Particles can pass through a wall lock stock and barrel via tunneling. > >See > >https://www.livescience.com/20380-particles-quantum-tunneling-timing.html > >SKIP > >Sometimes, particles can pass through walls. > >Though it sounds like science fiction, the phenomenon is well documented >and even understood under the bizarre rules that govern the microscopic >world called quantum mechanics. > >Now, scientists have measured the timing of this passing-through-walls trick ><https://www.livescience.com/19075-neutrino-particle-communications-message.html> >more >accurately than ever before, and report their results in today's (May 17) >issue of the journal Nature. > >On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 1:11 AM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> In reply to Axil Axil's message of Mon, 12 Jun 2017 00:40:58 -0400: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> >You are correct. This concept is called tunneling. >> >> That's not what you drew. What you drew was superposition of waves. That >> happens >> all the time on a macroscopic scale. Most obviously in the sea on a windy >> day. >> Also with waves in air, both sound and EM. However particles don't seem to >> like >> doing that (witness the bump on your head. ;) >> Note also that mechanical waves are only possible precisely because the >> particles don't pass through one another, but pass their kinetic energy and >> momentum on from one to another (actually via EM fields at the atomic >> scale). >> [snip] >> >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >> Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
