Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU!Dale.Amon From: Dale.Amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: SPACE Digest V9 #219 Message-ID: <602269725.amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU> Date: 31 Jan 89 17:08:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 > But how would it feel to have *some* of your atoms quantum tunnel? You'd want > the whole thing to happen at once, n'est-ce pas? :-) On the serious side, I really did not intend to imply that this leads to a practical means of FTL. I expect the "tunneling", if it should occur, will be a less than pleasant experience... And I am unaware of any current physics that would suggest such tunneling actually could occur. It's just blatant for-the-hell-of-it supposition on my part. :-)