I agree that it makes a strange sort of sense. A slower particle within the barrier would maybe need to get out of the forbidden region more quickly. The stran

I agree that it makes a strange sort of sense. A slower particle within the barrier would maybe need to get out of the forbidden region more quickly. The strangest part to me was that it spends time in the barrier at all, and is effected by it's time there. I somehow thought that in quantum tunneling the barrier was bypassed entirely, but this kind of proves that it wasn't bypassed and was actually traversed when it shouldn't have been. I am also not a quantum physicist.