I went through 4 books and all had very poor details regarding exactly how the process of catalysis works. I looked in a p-chem book, general chem, general physics and my thermal physics book. That it does work is irrefutable, but the HOW is very nebulous. Oh, they do a great job of describing the effects but not the mechanism. I even tried an Advanced Search on Alta Vista, and it seems to be an area of kinetics research using femtosecond pulses of light.
Femtosecond pulses are optical analogs of tsunamis. The wavelength of a light pulse, distributed in space is then concentrated in space with a higher amplitude, but it then exists distributed in time.
TP noted that tunneling sounds like a siphon. In a way, I suppose it is, but in a siphon there is water at all intermediate energy levels between point A and B, including in the pipe that goes over the hill. Plus you have to push the first water over the geometric height of hill to get the siphon to work. Here its like a magic siphon that goes over the same hill, but "disappears" from our world and "goes somewhere else" over a lower, but invisible hill, only to reemerge at the other side, but ultimately at the exit. So you only have to push the water to some height that is geographically lower than the hill you want to crest. Where the lower hill "exists" is all described in very imprecise language...
If there is a tunnel, through "what" does it "tunnel"? |
