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Caption: Figure 1: There are two ways of conquering a mountain. In classical physics, one must climb the mountain to get to the other side. That is not the case in quantum physics: objects can simply cross the mountain horizontally -- by tunneling through it.
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
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