Why do we feel stuff when we touch things when we are not actually touching them?

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If we touch an object we feel it even though we are technically not touching t because atoms are 99% empty space. How does this work?

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You’re way over thinking this. You’re also grossly overestimating how large an atoms is. They are so tiny and do in fact undergo bonding and electron exchange which means molecules will stay together. It’s not like you could simply move mass through the atoms of a molecule. Atoms strongly interact and there are such a large, unfathomable number of atoms in every object that the effects of atoms being mostly empty space are negligible. You need to think in terms of how the real world actually works and not how it should work based on 1 piece of information about quantum physics.

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