eli5 how we can walk on dirt/moss and not crush and kill the microscopic critters in the dirt?

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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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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