i read about atoms and said they never touch each other

Question

I read somewhere that atoms never touch ( in a joke ) but how is this possible that we made of atoms and not touch ? But we touch each other and feel ?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Its like a Lego project. When you build something with Lego, there are tiny gaps inbetween each brick. But they’re all stuck together into a single project.

If we were the size of quarks (what neutrons & protons & electrons are made of) then we would see a HUGE gap in-between each atom. But since we are so much larger than individual atoms, it seems like there’s no gap at all.