Categories: Comparisons
An example of a metaphor adopted into scientific nomenclature
"Quantum tunneling was initially conceptualised as a penetration of, or leaking through, a barrier or a hill. A particle with energy lower than the energy it takes to overcome an obstacle, a potential hill[,] can occasionally 'tunnel' through it. It is the effect of a particle tunneling through an obstacle [which would be] forbidden in classical mechanics."
Perović, Slobodan (2017) Complementarity and quantum tunneling, in, Neils Bohr and the Philosophy of Physics. Twenty-first-century perspectives (Jan Faye & Henry J. Folse, eds.) Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp.207-222.
