Quantum Tunneling
How Particles Pass Through Impossible BarriersBy Aira Astralis
Length1h 55m
About this audiobook
A ball thrown too slowly at a wall always comes back. An electron thrown too slowly at a barrier sometimes gets through. Quantum tunneling - the passage of matter through walls that classical physics calls absolute - runs the sun's fusion, sets every radioactive half-life, holds your phone's flash memory, and images individual atoms. This book tells it whole in plain prose: the alpha-decay scandal and the 1928 wave-mechanics triumph; the classical wall's logic and the evanescent tail's answer; the Gamow peak that lights the stars; the scanning tunneling microscope, the tunnel diode, the flash cell, and the Josephson junction; proton and electron tunneling in enzymes and the energy chains of life, graded honestly; the ninety-year tunneling-time puzzle; the energy-borrowing myth corrected; the interpretations' readings; the vacuum's Casimir cousin; and the machines' ledger, sorted by what the tail does. The impossible made improbable, and the improbable made into the world.
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GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Discovery: The Decay That Would Not Behave
4Chapter 2: The Classical Wall: What Should Happen
5Chapter 3: The Wave's Answer: The Tail Through the Wall
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6Chapter 4: Radioactive Decay's Arithmetic: The Gamow Triumph
7Chapter 5: The Sun's Secret: Fusion by Tunneling
8Chapter 6: The Scanning Tunneling Microscope: Seeing with the Tail
9Chapter 7: The Tunnel Diode: The Electronics Industry's Turn
10Chapter 8: Josephson Junctions: Superconductors' Turn
11Chapter 9: Tunneling in Chemistry: Protons on Short Errands
12Chapter 10: Photosynthesis and Biology's Other Tails
13Chapter 11: Tunneling Time: The Rude Question
14Chapter 12: The Folklore Corrected: No Borrowed Energy
15Chapter 13: Tunneling in the Interpretations
16Chapter 14: Vacuum and the Zero-Point Edge: Casimir's Barrier
17Chapter 15: Radiochemistry and the Heavy Nuclei: The Wider Nuclear Menu
18Chapter 16: Field Emission: The Cold Spark
19Chapter 17: The Ledger of Machines: What Tunneling Does
20Chapter 18: Fun Facts and Trivia About Quantum Tunneling
21Chapter 19: Conclusion: The Significance of Quantum Tunneling
22Conclusion
23References: Quantum Tunneling
24Glossary
25About the Author
26Series Info
27Copyright
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