If numbers are infinite, and they can get infinitely smaller, then how is it possible that we can touch anything? Wouldn’t the distance between my foot and the floor, for example, just keep getting infinitely smaller?

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If numbers are infinite, and they can get infinitely smaller, then how is it possible that we can touch anything? Wouldn’t the distance between my foot and the floor, for example, just keep getting infinitely smaller?

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I think a physicist would have to get in here, but you are correct… theoretically. There is a small distance between anything you touch and you. But this is happening at the atomic level, I believe.

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