Inside the Physics Breakthrough Reshaping Technology

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]This Nobel Prize-winning discovery shows that something we thought was impossible can actually happen. Imagine this. You throw a ball at a wall, it bounces back, right? That's how we expect the world [music] to work. But in the quantum world, things don't follow those rules.

[00:00:14]There's a small chance that instead of bouncing back, [music] a particle can pass straight through the wall and appear on the other side. No breaking, no hole. It just appears. This is called quantum tunneling, [music] and it happens because particles don't act like solid objects. They behave like waves, [music] which means they don't have one exact position. They exist as a spread-out probability. So when that wave reaches a barrier, a small part [music] of it can leak through. Now, scientists showed that this effect isn't just happening to tiny particles, [music] but to large groups of particles acting together. That's called macroscopic quantum [music] tunneling.

[00:00:50]And this isn't just theory. As we build smaller and smaller technology, like [music] computer chips, electrons can actually jump across tiny gaps, causing real engineering challenges. [music] At the same time, this same idea is what helps power quantum computers, which could solve problems far beyond today's machines. So something we thought was impossible isn't just real, it's already part of the world [music] we're building. This video is brought to you by Intigem. Join us to build AI robots, fly drones, create 3D AR games, and launch to near space. Teens can publish research, launch startups, even file patents. Learn more at intigem.com.