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What parents think we watch: fun silly videos What we actually watch:

This guy got us watching his fingers touching a glass of water for 5 mins straight, amazing

The example you gave with the glass of water is mind-blowing. The fact that everyone can easily repeat this experiment and understand what and why it's happening is amazing. I've never been this fascinated by a glass of water before 😂

Large objects can also tunnel, but their probability is so low you might never see it happen. But, you can increase the probability of something to tunnel by increasing it's energy. So if you channel enough energy through your body, you should be able to quantum tunnel through an object just before you explode.

Well you know, sometimes in life you just gotta make a quantum tunnel

*So that’s how my cat keeps coming inside when the door is closed*

Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance- wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life..

You know, I recall a story a friend of mine once told me about what I believe was this same principle. He stated that, given enough attempts, any object would (in theory) phase through any other object no matter the thickness. He gave the example of, if you were to slap your hand on a wooden table once every second in the exact same place for long enough, it would eventually pass right through the table as if it wasn't there. Granted, the heat death of the universe would probably have come and gone several times before you managed it, but it would still eventually happen. The reason being (if I recall his explanation correctly) was that molecules of your hand would eventually vibrate/align with those of the table in just such a way, that they wouldn't interact with each other when you tried to strike the table. I always found that story fascinating.

Me explaining to my cell mate how were going to escape prison:

"It will go trough the wall" _Trump didn't like that_

I remember being amazed with this same thing when I was a little kid. I didn't know why I couldn't see my fingers unless I pressed really hard then but I do now. Thank you for the nostalgia

The Quantum Tunnel effect reminds me of a phenomenon in Games and Simulations. If an Objekt in a Game/Simulation is small and fast enough it can tunnel right through aswell. In the Computer you can fix this problem with raycasting (basically checking the space between the last and latest position if there is any obstacle). It's pretty interesting that this even applies to the real world somehow.

Me: Shoving my fingers against a glass Mom: What are you doing Me: QUANTUM TUNNELING

I was expecting to learn on how to phase through walls.

This was incredibly good. What a wonderful talent it is to be able to make these topics so very accessible to the average person.

I've been doing that fingers against the water in the cup thing for years as a kid without realizing I've been experimenting with quantum tunneling

"If the barrier is thin enough the object can go through it" That just sounds like clipping out of bounds with fewer steps

“Non zero probably” is my new favorite answer.

How he explains core things very easily I love that

it's amazing that he is able to turn a common daily occurrence into a quantum phenomenon. I think we have all noticed this before and have thought nothing of it. truly incredible how complex the world is once you understand it.

Normal physics: "its impossible" Quantum physics: "everything is possible for me"

"It will go through the wall" Me: how??? My router: in terms of lag we have lag.

Always wondered as a small kid what in the world was going on with the water glass whenever my fingers were wet. Thank you for finally providing me an answer to this question!

Wow! How come we were taught this in high school? It kind of makes sense if we think represent surfaces and particles as probabilistic wave functions.

is the glass half full or half empty?? the action lab: the glass is a quantum tunnel

DUDE WHEN HE EDITED FOR THE EXAMPLE IT WAS SO CLEAN, HIS BODY WAS IN THE EXACT SAME PLACE

Man you are too good to be a physics professor I wish I had a teacher like you

I think in the primer, for more technical watchers anyways, you should also talk about how kinetic energy of the particle overcomes its potential energy, which allows the particle to enter the forbidden region and having it tunnel out of the barrier :> i think itd also be very cool for the general watcher to see the graphs and more engaging for watchers that have taken physical chemistry courses before hehe

Parents : So, Who is your new Science teacher? Me: The Action Lab

"The boundary is actually the air around the outside of the cup." I think we need a repeat of this experiment inside the vacuum chamber.

Great. Interesting to understand the complex concepts so easily. It would be fine if any experiments like this with respect to time.

Really Hats off for how easily u hav explained such a complex concept with such A Daily Life Example.....Thank You Very Much 🙌🙌🙌

Classical physics : you can't go through stuff Quantum physics :hold my nuclear beer

Some random dude in the back rooms just gets hit with a bouncy ball

You just blew my mind with such a simple explanation.

Very cool to see the quantum scale at work in "real" life. . The part directly after 06:45 had me thinking you were gonna put the glass AND your hand in a vacuum...

My friend : "Teleportation" Me an intellectual : *"Quantum tunneling"*

Step 1: Drop a guitar pick on the ground

From 2:00 it’s just pure editing but his concept is actually right

I've noticed this before as well. But I've always thought it's because you're applying pressure to the material, creating an optical density gradient, causing the light to bend enough to escape.

8:25 "You can start up a nice conversation about quantum mechanics at the table" Yeah, that's how I got ma gurlfriend.

If this guy was my physics teacher.... I would've attended each and every class....

The fact that these everyday phenomena are because of quantum tunneling is really mind blowing. although i have a fair bit of engineering background, this video opened my eyes to a different way of understanding the world. thank you.

Surprisingly good: I think it is essential to show the EVIDENCE for conclusions especially when dealing with surprising phenomena. And 'action lab' does!

him: throws a ball to a thin barrier video: *_cuts_* ball: goes through the barrier me: woah

When I try to explain this video to my parents at the dinner table... My parents: 👁 👁 👄

The level of simplicity with which you explained this complex topic is just amazing 🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉

Props to this guy. He was a massive help in making the ASHPoD.

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Tunnel: I sleep Quantum Tunnel: r e a l s h i t?

Thanks for making this video ,good job I watch almost all your new videos since one one good job 👍

Bruh you are the best scientist you don’t keep talking about nonsense you actually get to the point with nerdy facts and even people who got an f in science can understand what you say!!

so how do i steal the infinity stones with this

Imagine being on a date: Her: "Hey, do you know why I can see my fingers through the glass of water." Him: "Well ..."

I just love it. I instantly replied the experiment at home and it turned right *-*

i know that if you takes two transparent cubes made of different compound, you place them side by side in a way that they makes perfect surface contact, if you place a light source near one of the object, the light that will get out of the second object will be angled... but if you places a third cube made of the same material than the first one... the light will come back straight but a bit offset... the angle and the offset depend of the materials used... but the best is to pass a lazer in between a hair comb... and try to block the lazer with a needle...

"tHe ViDeO wAs CuT aT 2:15". dude. We know. He knows. He wasn't trying to trick you. Lmao

The Action Lab: **EXPLAINS SOMETHING SCIENTIFICALLY** Me: _I didnt understand anything but im still ENTERTAINED_

That was awesome! Can't wait till you do super positioning & entanglement.

It's good to hear about the quantum wall in electronics. Those PR guys are still talking about the Moore's Law and transistors shrinking exponentially in size as if quantum tunneling wasn't the main cause of modern CPU heating.

Instructions unclear......ended up starting a fire in Antarctica.

Him: shows a big version of particles going through walls Everyone: YoU EdiTed iT!!

Thank you so much for sharing and may you life be full of joy, love , and happiness and the right type of riches

Thanks for this video! It really is an amazing piece of evidence that effectively and easily convey the complicated physics of tunneling. I will use it with my students and with friends. Thanks!!

so what you're saying is that the hitboxes of Quantoms are junky

I remember doing this with a glass when I was a kid and wondered why that happened. Thank you sooo much another great video

This is always shown as the "barrier" as being a curve/wall and an "electron" trying to go (tunnel) through it. I drew up some slides that show the barrier as a 3 atom thick barrier and the probabily space/time wave of the electron. As the electron with low energy comes close to the 3 atom thick barrier, the probability wave reflects off the first layer of atoms and causes the probability wave decay as it passes through the space occupied by the 3 atom layer thick barrier. It shows that in such a thin barrier, there is still good probability that the electron can appear on the other side of the barrier. Like refraction/reflection, part of the electron's probability wave also reflects off the final layer of atoms as it leaves the barrier. So, you ask, how can probability alone "physically" allow the low energy electron to "tunnel" through? Well, the probabilty reflections effect the electron's past (see my explanation on quantum entanglement). So, the past of the electron can be "perturbed" to give it a different path though space-time to put it on the other side "before" the barrier was even at that point in space-time. Look at it this way, at the tiny 1 Plank length (millions of times smaller than an atom), this is where the ever changing past meets the uncertain future to become the now at 1 Plank time (a very tiny span of time - less that we can even come close to measure). The universe works like this at the quantum level - where Pradoxes can exist but contained within 1 Plank length and last for 1 Plank time, we see a blur of this at our level. As the future meets the now, it can send info back in time 1 Plank time. Once something goes back just 1 Plank time, it can go all the way back to the Big Bang if needed to effect the "needed" outcome of the now... no matter how far back in the past it has to go, the result catches up to the now instantly, because it was all in the past. Time is not constant, and moves backwards at the quantum level. Whew! You gotta light up a doobie on this [laugh]. This ties in with entanglement, quantum foam, virtual particles, uncertainty principle, quantum states, and more. In English? Time moves backwards too, so ANYTHING is possible, even what SEEMS to be impossible. We think that the past is fixed, but at the quantum level it is always changing, we just can't get to the past at our level to prove it (it is gone to us), and we can't predict the uncertain future (it hasn't happened yet). The now is actually moving from the past to the future 1 tiny Plank instant at a time. But OUR now is a big blur of those tiny Plank moments. So our RECORDS of the past seem fixed because of the blurs. Make sense?

the concept of total internal reflection with laser bending with water was totally eli5 way! thanks.

My friends: Eating Me: suddenly showing them a glass. *Casually talks about quantum mechanics* Friends: ok

Me: Hey mom look, I'm doing a quantum tunneling experiment. She: Ok, right, sure you are, good for you honey.

Water in bigger objects is in a constant motion due to earths stabilisation system. thats why most of the wavelenghts are dispersed and lots of spectrum table is blocked, but earths exclusively locked sound waves are actually moving faster. Pretty interesting. Abstraction makes me think about wavelenght, Galileo and heating too

This is great! Thanks for this! Love it 😀

3:37 how it feels to piss 5 gum

My family: casually eating at a restaurant Me: seed my hand not visible on the glass of water Also me: *The prophecy is t r u e*

i remember seeing this effect when i was looking into my water glass once and this question has stuck into my mind now i know that the light just thinks that it can move through walls and thats why i can see it

dude, you can't just go around blowing my mind like this.

This level of simplification only reflect a deep understanding of the matter. Good job.

When someone says quantum tunneling in real life, Me: expecting me passing through wall

Thank, u really inspire me to make a time mechine, so i can go back and not wasting my time to wacth this 10 minute video

Very good! You are now in possession of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device

When i was little i actually wondered why i can’t see my fingers unless i press and never got to understand it and now i did, quantum physics is very interesting.

Instructions unclear, ended up stuck in the wall

There was no barrier. That's why you could see mr finger. All this is (@0:11), is things get too small to be measured ("seen") without affecting them.. so they came up with this elaborate mechanism to overcome that. But this new tool has some strange predictions. Doesn't mean it really happens. It's a side-effect of trying to work around uncertainty.

I'm so glad i recently came upon this channel

SCP-106: *walks through wall during a mass breach* the Action Lab: *Explains every single motion of SCP-106 walking through wall* SCP-106 "I fear no man but him*

I thought the title said "how to make a quarantine tunnel" Edit: how did this get 472 likes >_>?

This principle is used in Zener diodes and it is called tunneling when an avalanche breakdown happens at a certain voltage called the barrier or breakdown voltage

I know this question is kinda late, but what happens to this experiment in a vacuum chamber? did the glass and water turn totally see-through from the top?

Me: *talking about quantum mechanics with my date* She: *questions why she came here*

I really like this. It shows that quantum tunnelling is just another everyday phenomena and not "magic" like some people perceive when they learn about it.

This is one of my favorite videos of yours

“In real life” As if quantum tunneling isn’t existing IRL already

The action lab: quantum tunneling Me: no way... a water bottle peeing neon pee

So he’s taking these everyday things I keep seeing and wondering about and explaining them so that I can see them in a way I’ve never done before? very fascinating. Thank you, Action Lab guy.

As u said there will be transfer of few electrons through resistor in a quantum mechanics but still transistors are made perfectly with no transfer of electrons and at a quantum size too

Well certainly this shows that electrons function as a wave form then, right? They transmit themselves through thin barriers like heat or light can. Very cool.

Instructions unclear, ended up erasing time itself.

me: does not understand a single thing also me: *INTERESTING*

Rutherford's alpha particle scattering experiment is a good example of this !!