Recent content by BoxedCat

Is there anything I can do besides waste my time on the lottery to that degree to "activate" some sort of quantum tunneling? For say upon my cat(no pun intended) possibly?

So I should not worry about falling through the floor and instead I should waste my money on winning the lottery? Is there anything I can do without wasting that much of my time that could guarantee the quantum tunneling of something?

So I hope you have all heard of the possible manned mission to the red planet or... MARS! I believe Nasa said something around the lines of hopefully having a manned mission to Mars around 2030 and before that the so called stepping stone by capturing an asteroid around 2020. Now my question is...

Which is why we (not me, at least not yet) do what we do we can shore up the inadequacies which frankly will probably lead to more inadequacies but we do it anyways! But still, I like my atoms were they are, with me not traveling the Universe like it is some atomic scale version of Star Trek

As far as scientists know the Universe could theoretically expand forever (although probably not) so the Universe to answer is most likely not infinite in size, although it is very big and expanding. The other thing you mentioned is the age of the Universe. We know that the Universe started...

Alright. Well thanks for the help. I am now put at ease that no foreseeable accident could occur from the Universe (possibly) playing a great big trick on me.

What if I tripped? But excluding the small chance of it happening would anything bad happen like maybe a rip in your skin or would you just not feel it?

I get the fact that a) electrons don't "like" each other so they force each other away and b) that this is why we don't fall through the floor. But my question is (since this is on the quantum mechanics section) since there is a probability that say the atom under your toe could pop up somewhere...