Teaching Kids to Run at Walls Since 1940 By Samurai Bob

By @Samurai Bob
POSTED: 04 Jan 2014 22:49
BUMPED: 09 Jun 2015 22:52
CATEGORY: Educational
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Run at a brick wall.
Go do it.
Right now.
Didn't go through it, did you?
I bet you could.
Einstein once said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results." He obviously was not referring to Quantum Tunneling.

You know how the Flash can run through walls? Your answer might be "vibrating himself at the same frequency of the wall." That might be possible if he could control the Higgs-Boson field.Anyone who's taken Chemistry in High School knows about electron orbitals. In an atom, an electron has different energy levels. Get the atom hot enough, it goes into an "excited state." So the electrons go to a higher orbit around the atom. But the electrons don't pass the space in between. They just teleport there. The formula to predict the approximate location of the electron was created by Shrodinger, and boy, was he a ladies' man.

This theory was proven soon after by putting a conductive metal over a plate of excited electrons.(This was all done in a vaccum) Putting it very close, and I mean VERY close, about 10 percent of the electrons "jumped" to the second metal. For fun, Shrodinger plugged in a human's approximate mass and speed into his equation, expecting the probability to be 0. It wasn't. It was very small, but non-zero. Which means that it IS possible. Even though it'd take longer than the age of the universe, if you ran at a brick wall a bunch of times, you may theoretically go through! So how do electrons do it? First of all, they're small. The smallest subatomic particle. Or should I say the one with the least weight? Actually, I'd say the particle with the least interaction with the Higgs-Boson field. That's a story for another time. Electrons may be small, but the deciding factor is it's SPEED. Early physicists thought electrons were waves, not particles, because they moved so fast. Turns out they were particles. (Or matter waves, according to modern string theory.) So The Flash vibrates so fast, his particles have a near 100% chance of tunneling through the wall! This also explains Kitty Pryde of the X-Men's true power- To control her Quantum tunneling probability! So Einstein was wrong, run at a brick wall and you may go through! He was also wrong when Heisenburg shattered his theory that Fate existed, but that's a story for another time.
Again, this information is brought to you by James Kakalios and explained through me as a medium. Thank you for your time, ciao.

~Samurai Bob

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Zelda110124
09 Jan 2014 21:40

I thought you were going to talk about Harry Potter.

supertimod
08 Jan 2014 12:32

Actually Einstein was not wrong. He said do the same thing over and over expecting the different results. If you change your speed each time, that is not insanity, it is however an experiment. Have fun running into brick walls!

spideer
06 Jan 2014 22:44

1/100 people are physiopaths. Meaning appropriately 24 students at my school are.

Samurai Bob
01 Jun 2014 18:06
In reply to spideer

You have 2400 people in your school?

Samurai Bob
07 Jan 2014 03:24
In reply to spideer

Psychopaths. And I'm pretty sure the sample group in said study tested people over the age of 18.

spideer
07 Jan 2014 16:15
In reply to Samurai Bob

awwww. me and my friends are pretty sure that if we aren't psychopaths, we wish we where. I've got strange friends.

TRINSTER
05 Jan 2014 03:35

*runs at brick wall* Why didn't I go through it? Explain. Your blog makes absolutely no sense to me.

HullBreach
04 Jan 2014 23:13

Fun fact: gold is yellow (as opposed to the common gray of metals) because the inner electrons travel so fast in their orbits that they move at a big enough fraction of light speed to shift the colors of the photons they release. (Before you ask: copper is red because of resonance between electron shells.)

Samurai Bob
04 Jan 2014 23:20
In reply to HullBreach

Hullbreach like shiny things. Wait, since the electrons move so fast in gold, is it more conductive than other metals?

HullBreach
05 Jan 2014 01:48
In reply to Samurai Bob

Gold is a fairly good conductor of electricity, behind just silver, copper, and aluminum. It's used for plating electronic connectors because it will not tarnish or oxidize over time.

The orbit of electrons is analogous to the orbit around a planet. The Moon takes about 28 days to full orbit the Earth, but a low Earth orbit spaceship will take just a few hours. This is because the centripetal force must counteract stronger gravity of being much closer.

For gold, the innermost electron shells have so much pull from the protons of the nucleus that their electrons must orbit very quickly. Only the outermost electrons are responsible for interactions with electrical currents, so the large size of a gold atom means there is less of a pull on those electrons, allowing them to break free more easily.

Teaching Kids to Run at Walls Since 1940

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