There is a fundamental question when dealing with metaphysical terms like this one. To be honest with you, I felt horrified the day I watched the NOVA scientific film titled "The elegant universe." I would like to see Einstein's facial expression after watching Dr. Brian Green trying to go through a wall in the attempt to compare in macroworld-like examples one of the greatest BLUNDERS of XXst. century modern physics. INCREDIBLE!
No doubts about it, tunneling is all about propagation of energy across "barriers" of "higher energy levels" and other obstacles that make impossible to accept under any circumstances... including in the frame of correct applications of quantum mechanics.
This is literally what I wrote in the first sentence of my book's description:
"QM is today a perfect compromise between an ABSURD REALITY (we've built for ourselves) and a bunch of lucky experimental results..." Well... The wave function is part of that absurd reality and I'll planed to discredit it with all my ways available in my common sense arsenal.
There are two main factors that induced earlier physicists to chose a mathematical formulism without a shread of logic instead of a more plausible and acceptable alternative explanation.
The first factor is TIME. Time is still "glued" to space in general relativity and its relashionship with ENERGY and its pattern of interaction is not understood yet [my personal opinion].
The second factor is referred to the atomic model and its structure. I think that those who regularly read my articles are well aware of my views about reality inside the atom and how I explain those "sub-atomic particles" in my own terms.
Tunneling then was said to be the movement of a "sub-atomic particle" [electron, proton, neutron and even an alpha particle] from one level of energy to a next in an act of magic. The magic act is ladies and gentlemen being blame on the existence of a wave function that every PARTICLE [even us] has access to "when needed." In physics there is an old concept very well proved and experimentally demonstrated called "TRANSPARENCY." This concept is [in my theory] what explains why a quantum of energy is able to move [as an invisible entity] across other patterns or harmonics without being "disturbed." Those physicists who studied SOLITONS in past decades elaborated the concept very well. They saw how those "solitons" overlapped each other without interference of any sort.
I said in this thread of mine, that quanta of E-M energy PRODUCED inside N-type semiconductors [silicon dopped with atoms having an unbalanced harmonic in a higher level of energy] were able to move throughout P-type without any "DIFUSSION." NEVER EVER an "electron" made in N-TYPE atomic oscillators were occupying lower levels of energy to later continue its way as if nothing had happened. When voltage was manipulated in transistors the current was controlled by other means.
If you understood the picture described in my atomic model, electrons were nothing more than "spatial projection of harmonics." The interesting aspect of the concept is that there are further SPATIAL PROJECTION AFTER ELECTRONS and those ones are spreaded across the crystal. The amazing FACT in play here is that those PROJECTIONS OF THE SAME HARMONIC [we thought as electrons before] are the true REASON for what we see and identify as TUNNELING. Energy modulated inside a temporal reality will accept a sort of "difussion" under the conditions imposed by the nature of their HARMONICS. A pretty simple example of it is seen in music. Those who play musical instruments have often realized that when you make a string vibrate the vibrations will also be observed in other strings that are "tuned" into one of its harmonics. The manipulation of voltage [energy applied to atomic oscillators] could be regulated in a way that the process is similar to a musical "tunning" of the overall energy. There isn't any wave function with no explanation whatsoever! There is [on the other hand] an explanation to the NEED of having a WAVE FUNCTION in physics today and that responds to the "mathematical representation" introducing this posting on top.
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