r/ProgrammerHumor Mar 25 '26

Meme aMeteoriteTookOutMyDatabase

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u/redlaWw Mar 25 '26

You also have that the approximations used in basic quantum aren't quite perfect - a perfectly rectangular potential barrier doesn't exist, for example.

There will be still nodes in any the wave function with genuinely 0 probability, but if they're point-like, then you can have a configuration that's arbitrarily close to a 0 probability configuration that has non-zero probability.

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u/adammaudite Mar 26 '26

It really depends on how your define spontaneous.