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Quantum tunnelling for space travel...
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So, why can't we use quantum tunneling for FTL travel in space?
Please insert why it wouldn't work below, and crush one more of my dreams about faster-than-light travel in the process 
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November 20, 2016 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2016 at 11:08 pm by Autumnlicious.)
The scales are wrong for larger particles in a construct that must have its shape preserved as-is.
We could try tunneling your body through a wall, but a near insignificant fraction would get through and it would be a disorganized mass. You'll have more luck with a man-sized blender set to "Frappe". Scientifically: You can tunnel on a single particle basis. The larger the particle, the less likely it gets through. Tunneling probability quickly approaches zero when mass increases and/or at large length scales. Slave to the Patriarchy no more
Money to develop the tech.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" 
The known laws of physics seem to indicate that quantum tunneling cannot convey information about the state of a piece of matter faster than light... In quantum mechanics, it appears to be possible, but QM does not incorporate relativity.
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Bollocks. Back to the drawing board then...
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and some of the ways tunneling could go wrong are horrifying, even beyond the 'frappe' comment above.
What if the earth suddenly materialized at the center of the sun ? At least it would be 'quick' . . . . The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
Makes sense. There's a German physicist who wanted a piece of the pie and wrote a book on how the bright light is the doppler shift coming from the sould leaving the body at light speed. He felt some shame though, when the book became a best seller, he donated the proceeds to a children's charity
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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