Eric, the reason the ‘tunneling’ electron doesn’t interact is because it is no longer at a different pressure; it is traversing the nucleus as a ‘flow’. That flow polarizes the surrounding vacuum, the polarization forming a barrier which impedes the flow, thus causing a build-up of ‘pressure’, and a equal and opposite reduction in pressure on the opposite end of the oscillations extent. In trying to visualize the p+x side of the oscillation, think of a balloon inflating. The physical balloon though is replaced by a growing polarized surrounding vacuum… all this obviously happening at extremely fast speeds (10^-15 sec).
I don’t know if it’s accurate to say that the tunneling electron doesn’t ‘interact’ with the substance within the nucleus… I would bet that it does indeed; that there is some kind of coupling or attractive forces between them, and this is what keeps the electron oscillations with *that* nucleus and not separating from it to go wandering, or flying, off… There are harmonics at play between the electron oscillations and the nuclear ones, and you have to add enough energy before the e- oscillation jumps to a larger physical extent… add enough E to the oscillation and it exceeds the coupling with the nuclear oscillations and the e- escapes, (ionization energy). Can you think of any other observational phenomena which a dipolar model explains??? -Mark From: Eric Walker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 9:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Of Dipoles and Directions... On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:59 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <[email protected]> wrote: - electrons tunneling ‘thru’ the nucleus That's a weird one. When I first read about that one, it seemed a little off to me. There's this super dense quark-gluon plasma with all this energy, and the electron flies through the sea quarks without interacting with them (much). Maybe I've misunderstood the situation. Eric
