Patrik Schach and Enno Giese, physicists at TU Darmstadt, are looking to redefine time—they believe our previous measurements may have been inaccurate. The researchers have arrived at this proposal thanks to the phenomenon of quantum tunneling, where particles appear to move faster than the speed of light.
We make sense of the world around us with classical mechanics. In this realm, the laws of physics reign supreme, and particles tend to follow them. Dig a bit deeper into the quantum realm, though, and even the theory of relativity comes crashing down.
The faster-than-light travel of particles inside a quantum tunnel has prompted researchers to question whether we have accurately measured time. Schach and Giese have proposed a new experimental design to measure time for a tunneling particle, considering its unique abilities in the quantum realm.
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