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Astrid Haibel finished her PhD thesis at the University of Cologne about the topic of Signal Propagation in Photonic Barriers. She is currently working at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin in the Department of Materials Science.
Foreword: Subtle is the Lord | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Tunneling Process | p. 1 |
Time, Space and Velocity | p. 6 |
Measures of Time and Space | p. 17 |
Measures of Time: Heartbeat, Day and Year | p. 19 |
Measures of Length: Foot, Meter and Light Year | p. 21 |
Time in Biology | p. 29 |
Perception, Thoughts, Brainwork, Memory | p. 29 |
Biological Time Unit | p. 32 |
Velocity | p. 33 |
Velocity Definitions | p. 36 |
Velocity Measurement | p. 38 |
Interaction Processes | p. 43 |
Signals | p. 47 |
From Galilei via Newton and Einstein to Quantum Physics | p. 51 |
Faster than Light and Zero Time Phenomena | p. 57 |
The Tunneling Process: Space with Zero Time | p. 58 |
Tunneling Velocity | p. 104 |
Tunneling as a Near-Field Phenomenon | p. 115 |
Causality | p. 116 |
Non-Locality: Reflection at Tunneling Barriers | p. 120 |
Tunneling Particles are Not Observable | p. 124 |
Universal Relation between Tunneling Time and Signal or Particle Frequency | p. 125 |
Teleportation | p. 129 |
Wormholes and Warp Drives | p. 130 |
Bibliography | p. 139 |
Index | p. 141 |
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