Hey, that’s a fascinating angle. Quantum tunneling lets particles slip through barriers that would normally be impenetrable, and if you map that to cellular membranes, you could imagine proteins shuttling ions across thick, pressure‑squeezed layers without breaking them. In theory, the tunneling probability drops with mass and distance, but at the nanoscopic scale of ion channels it could be non‑negligible. So, yes, the physics does line up, but we’d need experimental data on how pressure affects tunneling rates in real biological membranes. It’s a neat intersection of quantum mechanics and deep‑sea biology—exactly the kind of puzzle I love to untangle.