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Loading contentThe quantum ability of a particle to cross an energy barrier it classically could not surmount. Tunnelling lets protons in the Sun's core fuse despite their electrical repulsion — without it the Sun could not shine — and it is central to the theory of how radiation escapes a black hole.
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