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Where does the “borrowed energy” come from in Alpha decay?
I was also thinking about the uncertainty principle in regards with energy & time. The question of something like:
Alpha tunneling out of the nucleus is where this can be invoked, but having an ...
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Tunneling of alpha particles
Consider this explanation of the alpha decay: It says
The Coulomb barrier faced by an alpha
particle with this energy is about 26
MeV, so by classical physics it cannot
escape at all. ...
