Tunneling Violates Special Relativity

TL;DR

This paper reviews experimental evidence suggesting that tunneling phenomena and evanescent modes exhibit superluminal signal velocities, nonlocality, and properties incompatible with special relativity, challenging conventional physics understanding.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of tunneling experiments showing violations of special relativity principles through universal scattering times and nonlocal behaviors.

Findings

Signal velocity in tunneling can exceed light speed

Tunneling modes are described by virtual particles

Experimental data show nonlocal effects and universal scattering times

Abstract

Experiments with evanescent modes and tunneling particles have shown that i) their signal velocity may be faster than light, ii) they are described by virtual particles, iii) they are nonlocal and act at a distance, iv) experimental tunneling data of phonons, photons, and electrons display a universal scattering time at the tunneling barrier front, and v) the properties of evanescent, i.e. tunneling modes is not compatible with the special theory of relativity.