Correct me if I’m wrong, but since we are technically never really touching anything due to the electrons within our body repelling the electrons that make up an object (eg. A chair) I’m technically hovering above it by an unfathomably small distance. Why is it I can still feel the texture of the chair (or anything actually) if I’m not really touching it?
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Take two bar magnets and point the negative poles towards eachother.
Now try to push them together – you’ll feel a force between them long before they actually collide.
Atoms are surrounded by a negatively charged shield of electrons, and so they exert this same electromagnetic force on eachother without any actual “contact” between the particles.
This force is tremendously powerful at close range, and makes up the solid world we perceive.
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