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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 2278761" data-attributes="member: 13107">Don't think that quantum tunnelling gets you > cHi,Slight hijack.(IMHO), I don't think that you can use quantum tunnelling effects to moveinformation/energy/mass faster than the speed of light, at least as far asis currently known.  Using that for faster than light travel is still magic.In the case of coupled events, there is an apparent exchange of informationbetween the events that would seem to travel faster than light, but, once youfactor in the time taken to move the coupled particles, you lose the apparentgain.  (Seems to me as if the particles 'lazily evaluated' their final state, butwith consistency with the state having been evaluated earlier on, with thecaveat that interference still occurs, which means the evaluation can't havehappened until the particles were apart.  It ... seems ... that information has totravel faster than light, but only in a way that cannot be used to physicallytransfer information faster than the speed of light.)Most non-technical writings on quantum effects aren't really going to tell whatis happening.  Too many analogies with everyday experience, which cannotwork.  Best to go read Feynman's third series of lectures.</blockquote>