If it has happened, it’s gotta be so sad being the one person who tunneled. You’re trying to convince others your hand really went through that table and then this guy pulls out the math equations.
True. Even if the chance is extremely low doesn't mean it's impossible. You could get really really lucky placing an object on the table and it went down through the table. but nobody's gonna believe you, and that sucks😢
Nothing and really nothing in the universe is impossible, the chances of them happening are so close to zero that we deem them impossible. For example, the chance of you teleporting from your house to a random part of the universe may seem sci fi, but in reality, there is an incredibly small chance that a wormhole opens up in your location even if that takes longer than the heat death of the universe, because something that experiences time forever, will experience pretty much everything. To put it in simple words you or a remaining part of you, is bound to teleport eventually. Just like quantum tunneling. It’s bound to happen simply because there’s infinite time for it to happen.
@@gigamad1729The thing about the wormhole is suspect. It's more plausible to suggest that the atoms would just so happen to collide in the perfect arrangement to construct your body, mind and memories and all.
anything that can happen will happen if wormholes are actually possible then what he said is going to happen because time is infinite it never runs out @@godlyvex5543
@@gigamad1729There literally it isn't infinite time. Remember, heat death of the universe and all You maybe need to watch the short again, i am not gonna type a whole comment explain again what the video already explained better than i ever could
Not only is it not going to happen: but when it starts getting close to happening, your whole hand isn't going to quantum tunnel through the table intact, but spontaneously dissolve, and you will have no hand left, because it is far more likely that if and when freak events of multiple atoms quantum tunnelling that much in the same locality, they will do so in a way that doesn't maintain the larger, complex chemical order of the larger, local object itself, but instead all separate from each other in a chaotic mess.
@@pixelmace1423 What if Siddhartha Gautama had such pure concentration he was able to consistently walk through walls unscathed and was able to perfectly relay how to develop this ability to others?
No. . . Including that would INCREASE the odds since you can think of the hand as something that isn’t N independent bodies, but it’s not 1 cohesive body either, so it’s somewhere in between. But even then, the odds of a single atom teleporting through the table is pretty low too
For some reason I remember as a kid that if something was going fast enough it would go through another object. It’s like a Mandela affect and I remember learning how to make coins go through a table.
it's because of mass manufacturing and machine washing of laundry. since there are a huge number of people who have the same socks as you all using a washing machine / dryer with similar specs to you, occasionally the chaos of that system (closed, behind a door) can cause a temporal pair o' socks that entangles two socks in entirely different locations together. Big Laundry is actually doing this on purpose while running their own machines just full of currency so they can pull a bunch of money through worhmholes
People are bad with big numbers. People who aren't used to big numbers are TERRIBLE with big numbers and only like 5% of the population (if that) is interested.
Let's just say "practically 0%". It's not 0% but it's about as close to 0% as one could possibly get, aside from the calculations concerning infinitely small numbers. I now truly understand just how unlikely that is.
If a character can bend luck to allow themselves to pass through objects, they'd need one hell of a downside to such power to keep them from becoming uninteresting and essentially godlike.
I love the number of multiverse times universes times galaxies thing. Such an apt way of describing how improbable something is. Kinda reminds me of another vid that showed how insane that minecraft speedruning thing was
@@ZqTi0 ok so I kinda looked it up to refresh my memory. The channel name is Stand-up Maths, video titled "how lucky is too lucky" at 29mins if you wanna watch it. Context: Several years ago, person named Dream speedrun Minecraft. People accused him of cheating. Their proof was math, showing how insanely lucky he would have to be for the run to go his way. Internet drama as usual etc. The vid I remembered was some outsider(not even a gamer) making a math video to explain it
Could you imagine if the chances were higher? Like you’re just walking around your house thinking about what to have for lunch and then you just quantum tunnel through the freaking floor
Reminds me of a story I saw on Reddit a while ago where a mom was living in her childhood home. They went to renovate their bathroom and found a hairbrush under the floor. The mom went pale white, and explained that she had dropped her hairbrush as a child and it just vanished before her eyes. She eventually dismissed it as her imagination until the renovation. Of course, it's Reddit and there could also be other explanations, but it just makes you think.
The thing about statistics is that, even if the odds are 1/10^(shitload), you could slap your hand on the table 5 times and it could happen in one of those 5 times.
My Earth Science teacher in 7th grade would always tell us that if we could run through a wall, we would get 100s on our quizzes. Safe to say it didnt happen
Stanley Clark proud!!! and don't listen to the people saying stick to linguistics, physics and linguistics are both immensely interesting, I can't believe you're into both! Your channel is incredible keep up the good work!
i like how this puts things into a better perspective. sometimes it feels like quantum tunneling is something that is way more likely to happen than in reality
How did you get this number? The formula for transition probability through a finite potential barrier is T=exp(-2GL), If we say the effective size of a carbonlike atom (wood) is about 1nm = L. Average room-temp thermal energy of a “hand molecule” is about 0.01eV, If we say the potential barrier is about 1000ish eV at 0.001nm proximity then G = sqrt(2m(U-E)/hbar^2) = 10^14, such that the transmission probability is about on the order of 10^(10^5) or so (of one atom crossing). Still enormously small but nothing compared to your guess…
I study maths and this is my calculation: It can either happen or not happen so it's 50/50. In other words, slap the table twice and on the second time you will always go through. That's just the facts man, I'm sorry
I like to imagine this has happened exactly once in human history to some poor dude in Ancient Rome or something whose friends never believed him and whose life was forever changed by that time his hand just phased through a table for seemingly no reason
Thats the thr entirely true probability. Since your hand molecules could pass through the tables molecules, the chance of that separate from the quantum tunneling result would be 1/(5.2^61), which the quantum tunneling result could be comparatively neglected
The thing is, it's not that you have to do it X number of times for it to work, it's that you have an X chance of it working every single time you do it. So you could do it in 5 tries, or you could do it 10 times the probability number and still not do it.
@@benbrook469 if you roll a die over and over until you get a 6, it feels like eventually it should roll a 6, but probability states that each roll has to be considered separately. You always have a 1 in 6 chance of rolling a 6 regardless of what the other numbers before were.
@@KenikoB well, firstly, the die will eventually land a 6 with 100% chance. And intuitively rolling the die twice yields higher odds of landing a 6 than rolling it once But I don't think what you replied has relevance to what I replied. Im saying there is an expected number of times you have to hit the desk for your hand to go straight through. In the case of a 6-sided die, the expected number of rolls it takes to get 6 is 6 Otherwise I agree with you
@@benbrook469 The probability that you will eventually roll a 6 over the course of infinite rolls approaches 100%, but never actually reaches it. It is theoretically possible that you could just get unlucky and never get that 6. The expected values are never guaranteed, only expected.
Great video, but one major counter point: If it's possible at all, it could happen at the first slap. To my knowledge of stats, just because something is incredible unlikely, it can still happen, even twice in a row etc., because it's a likelyhood, not a prediction.
The real probability would actually be a lot lower than this because 1) he didn’t normalize his Gaussian 2) he didn’t account for the near infinite potential wall that the table would create
I once explained in a YT comment about how it was technically possible to teleport to the moon via quantum tunneling. Someone responded saying maybe that's the explanation for missing persons, and although I knew it was totally, absurdly unrealistic to expect an entire human to quantum tunnel to the moon, I had no way of explaining in words or numbers how unlikely that was. Thank you for this, now I have a reference for how unlikely it is for even a hand to pass through a table, let alone a body to the moon.
the odds of cosmic rays corrupting a video file on a computer in just the right way to make it look like someone quantum tunneled their hand through their desk are
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