[ExI] Instantaneous?

[John K Clark]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081227215828.htm

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From: "John K Clark" <jonkc at bellsouth.net>
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> In the current issue of the journal Science an experimental measurement of
> the time it takes for an electron to tunnel through a barrier was made.
> Theory predicted it should take somewhere between 500 and 600 attoseconds
> depending on the breaks. An attosecond is a billionth of billionth of a
> second; an attosecond is to a regular second as a second is to the age of
> the universe.
>
> The odd thing is that when an experimental measurement was actually made 
> it
> was found that the time for that electron to tunnel through that barrier 
> was
> less than 12 attoseconds, how much less nobody knows as that is the limit 
> of
> the experiment's accuracy.
>
> I don't know quite what to make of that and I find I'm not alone in my
> puzzlement. It's weird.
>
> John K Clark
>
>
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