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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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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Partly because the atoms are sort of “tethered” together to produce various states of “solidity”, and partly because yes, it IS technically possible, it would just have to line up absolutely perfectly; the chances of this happening are so slim they might as well be zero, but it COULD technically, theoretically, in some bizarre circumstance actually happen

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