Eli5 : If atoms are made of and separated by an incredible amount of empty space, why isn’t everything going through everything?
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Take a nut and tie it to a 4’ section of string and then whirl it around you 10 times as fast as would normally be humanly possible, then ask your buddy to walk through the empty space between you and the nut 4’ away from you. Your buddy is not going to have a good time.
Atoms are like this too, only instead of coming into physical contact with the spinning electrons, it’s repellent magnetic forces
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