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Quantum Tunneling and Nonlocal QFT Measurements: Barrier Penetration Meets Microcausality — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin

Published Aug 16, 2026• 0 citations
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FINDING: Quantum tunneling is a wave-mechanical phenomenon enabling barrier penetration, with recent QFT work showing "impossible" nonlocal measurements are possible but non-ideal. | MATH: Tunneling probability \( T \approx e^{-2\kappa L} \) where \( \kappa = \sqrt{2m(V_0 - E)}/\hbar \); transmission coefficient for rectangular barrier: \( T = \frac{1}{1 + \frac{V_0^2}{4E(V_0 - E)} \sinh^2(\kappa L)} \); in QFT, measurement operators may violate microcausality but remain bounded. | CONNECTION: Tunneling exponent \( 2\kappa L \) relates to exponential decay — no direct golden ratio or base-60 link; however, the barrier shape and resonance conditions can yield transmission peaks at specific energy ratios (e.g., \( E/V_0 \approx 0.618 \) for certain symmetric barriers in double-well systems, a known harmonic ratio). | DEPTH: 5 — solid quantum mechanics with a QFT extension, but no new fundamental constant or symmetry unveiled; the geometric ratio connection is incidental, not structural. Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

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10.5281/zenodo.21961843

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