Offlist: Tunnel effect, etc.

Cool winds

>>As  far  as I understand it, the tunnel effect IS magic ;)
> No it is not.

Reminds   me   of  one  particle  physicist's  remark  on  quarks  and
gluons(SP?):  "I  believe  that  there  weren't any of these particles
before.  God  just  invents  them as we go deeper so that we will have
something else to study."

>>That  is,  it  is  single most insane and unreliable process I could
>>recall.
> Yes it is.

>>IIRC, it is "Whenever there is a potential barrier of some strength,
>>>there will be some (electrons) that will pass it despite they don't
>>have  enough  energy to do it, and some that will bounced while they
>>have more than enough to pass it"? In other words, some of them just
>>"cheat"  and  teleport  thru  it,  while some others are too lazy to
>>climb ;)

> Hmm no. In a beam of electrons travelling at average speed v, you'll
> have  some  electrons  going faster and some slower, so some of them
> have  a  greater kynetic energy. The problem is, the distribution of
> speed is extremely random.

Do  I  get  it  right  then that if that electron beam has to travel a
sufficient distance, and is short itself, then it will spread somewhat
with faster electrons leading the way, so only the "front" of the beam
will pass the barrier?

BTW,  are  you  good  in  this area? I have two questions that none of
those I know have answered, including "Scientific American"'s people.

1)  What  will  be  the  properties  of  light  with  infinitely small
wavelength? How it will interact with matter?

2)  Suppose  we  have  some considerable quantity of anti-hydrogen and
much  greater quantity of regular matter, let it be SiO2, for example.
They  get  mixed.  Antiprotons  annihilate  with  protons;  positrons
annihilate  with  electrons.  When the reaction stops, we'll have some
matter  remaining,  but  the question is: what will happen to neutrons
from  disintegrated  nuclei?  What  energy  will they have? Will it be
enough  to  keep  them  from  being  captured,  or will they cause the
contamination of remaining matter?

>>No,  mostly,  I had in mind DarkSun defilers/preservers who have their
>>energy  source  clearly defined, and it belongs to the same plane they
>>are  on.  Anyway,  energy  source  could  be  whatever lies within the
>>casualty

> i think you mean causalty

Damn  spell-checker.  If  only  I  knew  the  way  to rig FineReader's
spell-checker instead of MS's...

>>[MAN, WHAT A WORD <G>] tetra-cone. I don't account for other
>>planes,  for  I  mean  more  of  universal  picture  than  (A)D&D, and
>>multiverse  could  be built without other planes or whatever they are.

>>Could  you  post  it (maybe just send it offlist to me if it is not SJ
>>related)?

> Yep as soon as I've worked it a bit more and put it in decent english -
> unless you know italian.

Very little. I know Latin and Espannol way better.

>>... Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

> Got  a  theory about why bombers strike hospitals in Afghanistan: it
> is  not  an  error,  they  see  a big red cross on a white field and
> think, "X marks the spot!".

Looks  like  that.  Back  in  1981,  in Libya, there was just the same
picture  --  a  lot of hospitals were being hit, despite the fact that
USAF used LGMs, not cassettes.

Good Luck
Andrew "NightBeing" Alchemist