Quantum tunneling-Kindergarden edition :Alpha decay - that's Hans Geiger and John Nuttall in nineteen twelve, Gamow refining it sixteen years later. Radioactive atom can't jump the barrier, but 1 out of 100 million times, the wave function says fuck it and it's outside anyway. Source: Physical Review, 1928
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