How do atoms and its components become the tangible things we feel at the human scale if they’re not tangible at the atomic level (and have weird properties like the particle wave duality)?

Question

Is there any explanation as to how the interaction between atom components then atoms then molecules and then macrostructures like a tree are so different from one another even though they have the same components?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Think of it like an inflated inner tube; It’s made from a clump of rubber that would sink in water, but the rubber is stretched out from itself (by a force, air pressure) that affects its volume when you touch it (not to mention buoyancy).

It’s the force of the relationships between atoms, which holds them apart from each other as much as it also holds them in place together, which is the actual tangible experience at the macro level… and not the individual atoms themselves.