“An alpha particle is the nucleus of a helium atom. An unstable, or radioactive, nucleus sometimes spits out an alpha particle in a desperate attempt to turn itself into a lighter and more stable nucleus. The process poses a big puzzle, however. By rights, an alpha particle should not be able to get out of a nucleus.
Think of an Olympic high jumper penned in by a 5-meter-high metal fence. Even though he is one of the best high jumpers in the world, there is no way he can jump over a fence that high. No human being alive has sufficient strength in their legs. Well, an alpha particle inside an atomic nucleus finds itself in a similar position. The barrier that pens it in is created by the nuclear forces that operate inside a nucleus, but it is just as impenetrable a barrier to the alpha particle as the solid metal fence is to the high jumper. Contrary to all expectations, however, alpha particles do escape from atomic nuclei. And their escape is entirely due to their wavelike face. Like light waves trapped in a glass block, they can penetrate an apparently impenetrable barrier and slip away quietly into the outside world. This process is called quantum tunneling and alpha particles are said to “tunnel” out of an atomic nucleus. Tunneling is actually an instance of a more general phenomenon known as uncertainty, which puts a fundamental limit on what we can and cannot know about the microscopic world.”
– The Quantum Zoo
So here it is scientists of this world, you are no better than philosophers. Your uncertainty principle is no better than philosophy. Don’t tell me that by experimental results you differentiate yourselves from philosophy.
‘LIMITATIONS’ are limitations of the human mind. They reside and restrict the common human brain. In the actual universe there are no LIMITATIONS
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