It’s somehow being repelled and attracted to stay on my hands at the same time
That sounds like “touching” has a really loose definition. If we go that way, you could say that our bodies are clouds of atoms that never touch one another
they say we never really touch something because our electrons repel.. so how does something like dirt stay on my hands when it's not really touching my hands?
Submitted 10 hours ago by Karmanopoly@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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blx@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
phar@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That is technically correct. The electrical field each atom is making means the electrons of each atom are not directly touching each other, so we are just a ton of atoms not touching each other outside of electrical fields.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Not touching, can’t get mad!
zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
There are multiple phisical forces at play. One force preventing two atoms beeing touched and one attracting stuff you touch.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I recently made this comment. This post reminds me again of that :D
ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
For things that stick, you can imagine that when the molecules are close, but not too close, they attract each other because of the molecules’ overall electromagnetic charges result in attraction. But once they get really close, the actual distribution of each molecule’s charge starts to matter, and in particular the negatively charged electron clouds get close to each other first, and repel.
phar@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
What this guy said. Two different electrical charges.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
j4k3@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Why don’t all the rocks roll off big mountains?
It is a matter of extreme scales between the size of a particle of dirt and the scale of atomic force.
The issue is how narrow of a scope of scale is available to you in human intuitive experience. The real universe is far far larger and far far smaller than what it seems.