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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>If atoms are made of and separated by an incredible amount of empty space, why isn’t everything going through everything?

For one , **the space isn’t “empty”** exactly. It has a repulsive electromagnetic forcefield.

For two, **stuff IS going through everything**, all the time! 100 trillion neutrinos pass harmlessly through your body every second.

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