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02-19-2008, 08:02 PM
Re: Propagation Through Vacuum/empty space

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Originally Posted by neutralino View Post
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.
Thank you, Nobody and *Neutralino. The term I'm referring to is as *you qualify it here, with "an electron jumping from one energy level to another."

(Doesn't 'tunneling' still connote a connection of some kind?)

Please refer to and consider the proposal at:

http://www.toequest.com/forum/quantu...mechanics.html
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