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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
It's not an out of hand dismissal.
I also assume you mean "that does not mean they can NOT be manipulated into appearing at the macroscopic level as well."
Well, I think it does. As do every single physicist I've heard or book I've read. The Heisenberg Principle requires the "energy borrowed" (for such things as quantum tunnelling or virtual particles) to be repaid within an almost infintesimal amount of time. We're talking about actions and periods at the Planck level here.
Very small.
So, to recap, I didn't dismiss them. I just said that they're so statistically unlikely at the macroscopic level as to be effectively impossible.
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Yes, that "can" was supposed to be a "can't".
We are talking about two different things here. You are talking about quantum tunnelling past potential energy barriers, I'm talking about quantum entanglement producing instantaneous communication. Quantum tunneling obviously can't be used for FTL travel. Particles can't tunnel outside of their light cone anyway. Quantum entanglement, however, does appear to allow instantaneous communication over any distance. How this is possible in light of relativity hasn't been fully worked out just yet.