ELI5, basically i saw a video of a someone lifting up moss and looking at it under a microscope to find a “water bear” also know as a tardigrade…how are we not crushing these things to death all the time?
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At the microscopic scale nothing is really smooth and everything is very bumpy. Even when a microscopic critter gets hit by a microscopic part of your foot that microscopically sticks out, it just gets pushed out into a microscopic groove or a pit.
tardigrades can withstand 16,000Gs and 6,000 Atms of pressure, they are very hard to crush.
According to VSEPR theory valence electron pairs are mutually repulsive. This is called electrostatic repulsion, and it’s described by Coulomb’s law. A consequence of this is the understanding that on an atomic level we actually don’t touch anything
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