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How Chaos Governs the Chemistry of Giants ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Chaos Gated Tunneling Drives Molecular Reactivity in Astrophysical Environments"
Quantum tunnels accelerate reactions, but molecular chaos destroys them — except for the moment when it suddenly vanishes.
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In the atomic world, chaos is not noise but a force governing the chemistry of giant planets. Quantum tunnels, like portals, let ions pass through barriers, but molecular trembling can destroy them. Scientists have found a measure of the fragility of these processes.

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Scientists
Jacob BekensteinStephen HawkingCharles-Augustin de CoulombJames Clerk MaxwellLudwig BoltzmannJohannes Rydberg
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hydrogen entropy
Laws
second law of thermodynamicsBekenstein-Hawking entropyCoulomb's lawBoltzmann distributionRydberg formulafirst law of thermodynamics
Original: arXiv:2604.21005 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds