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Physicists Propose New Kind of Quantum Tunneling
KentuckyFC writes to tell us that scientists from the UK and Germany are proposing a third kind of quantum tunneling. They propose that a quantum particle is capable of changing into a pair of "virtual particles" capable of passing through a potential barrier before changing back. The supposition also provides some interesting methods of possibly testing string theory. So many interesting and useful possibilities, I guess that just means it will be debunked faster than other scientific theories.
The fact that the current theory is so complex that theorists are still able to trawl through it and make all sorts of new predictions indicates to me that they're making it all up as they go along. Where's the theorists when super-coliders are producing particles that don't fit the current model? Oh I bet they'll be dancing in the streets if the LHC finds the Higgs-Boson, but the evidence is clearly stacking up that quantum theory, and with it string theory & m-theory, are pretty much all wrong and utterly flawed.
Where's the revolution when you need one?
What does tunneling have to do with FTL travel? They are completely unrelated.
Don't you get it? The human race is doomed anyway. Do you think Jesus is going to let you leave the planet? No. In Genesis, Jesus gave man dominion over the Earth. Not the sky. Not for you.
When the Wright Brothers took flight, they were offending God. And we just kept on doing it, over and over and over. We even landed on the moon, which was not man's to claim.
So flying is therefore a sign of the end times. Flying in space is just making it worse for ourselves. You can't be a good Christian and also believe in the possibility of faster than light travel.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!