Does the following thought experiment make sense?
Suppose we have a positively charged quantum mechanical particle in a finite potential energy well. Also suppose there is a free negatively charged quantum mechanical particle outside the potential energy well. There is a measurable probability that the positively charged particle will tunnel through the potential energy well and perhaps be attracted to the negatively charged particle. Likewise, the negatively charged particle has a finite probability of penetrating the potential energy well and hooking up with the positively charged particle should it still be trapped in the well. There is no “spooky action at a distance” to use Albert Einstein’s 1930s definition of quantum entanglement in this example since this electromagnetic attraction is a local phenomenon (?). The positively charged particle cannot exert an attractive force until it tunnels through the energy barrier or otherwise the negatively charged particle winds up breaking into the well. I don’t know exactly how quantum electrodynamics would explain this example. Perhaps the positively charged particle is a positron (antimatter lepton) and the negatively charged particle is a plain vanilla electron. We know that the local result of the interaction of our two matter-antimatter particles is an annihilation event whereby two energetic photons are created, or other products are generated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation#/media/File:Electron_Positron_Annihilation.png
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My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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