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JimDandy

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1. Very cool reason...literally

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue Jul 2, 2013, 01:31 PM

Jul 2013

"It seems that the deep freeze, ironically, may actually be aiding the reactions in space, rather than impeding them. The cold slows down the molecules, which stay near each other for longer rather than quickly bouncing off of one another. Slowing them down widens the window of opportunity for quantum tunneling by a thousand times or even more,..."

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Very cool reason...literally JimDandy Jul 2013 #1

I know the headline isn't yours.....but it sucks, really..... Wounded Bear Jul 2013 #2

Yeah, I know! LongTomH Jul 2013 #5

Which probably means that quantum tunneled chemistry will be in our toolkit soon. tridim Jul 2013 #3

What? caraher Jul 2013 #6

I meant to say FUTURE quantum computers. I'll look for the article. tridim Jul 2013 #7

The polymerization of formaldehyde by tunneling was studied long ago ... eppur_se_muova Jul 2013 #4