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02-19-2008, 07:37 PM
Re: Propagation Through Vacuum/empty space

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Originally Posted by RascalPuff View Post
"Quantum leap". Doesn't this mean, moving from one location in space to another, without ever occupying the interval of space dividing two (or more) different points?
The phrase you're after is quantum tunneling. Quantum leap is, I think, the term reserved to describe an electron jumping from one energy level to another.
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