{"id":421,"date":"2008-08-07T03:39:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T03:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2008-08-07T03:39:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T03:39:32","slug":"quantum-blog-tunneling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2008\/08\/07\/quantum-blog-tunneling\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum blog tunneling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In quantum mechanics, there&#8217;s this phenomenon called quantum tunneling, where a particle behind a barrier can spontaneously reappear on the other side of the barrier in the same way radioactive material can spontaneously emit radiation.\u00a0 While I&#8217;ve been away on an informative-but-tiring interview trip, this blog seems to have tunneled into new sectors of the history of science community and the science blogosphere thanks to the recent Isis series.<\/p>\n<p>So, some reflection on the series and a round-up of internet reactions to the Isis Focus Series is forthcoming, but probably not until later this weekend.\u00a0 New visitors, welcome and we hope you stick around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In quantum mechanics, there&#8217;s this phenomenon called quantum tunneling, where a particle behind a barrier can spontaneously reappear on the other side of the barrier in the same way radioactive material can spontaneously emit radiation.\u00a0 While I&#8217;ve been away on an informative-but-tiring interview trip, this blog seems to have tunneled into new sectors of the<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Quantum blog tunneling<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2008\/08\/07\/quantum-blog-tunneling\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}