>From the article: "At low temperatures, this tunneling water exhibits quantum motion through the separating potential walls, which is forbidden in the classical world," said lead author Alexander Kolesnikov of ORNL's Chemical and Engineering Materials Division. "This means that the oxygen and hydrogen atoms of the water molecule are 'delocalized' and therefore simultaneously present in all six symmetrically equivalent positions in the channel at the same time. It's one of those phenomena that only occur in quantum mechanics and has no parallel in our everyday experience."
I feel like this is a counterintuitive understanding of the condition of the water molecule that arises from the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Hopefully I'm not misusing the term in applying it to this context. Eric On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Roarty, Francis X < [email protected]> wrote: > https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160422163157.htm >
