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14-billion-years-later:

On why you never really touch anything.

Although this may not be remarkable to most of you it’s something that blows my mind everytime I think about it. Right now you’re probably sitting down on a chair or something, but in reality you’re actually hovering just slightly above it. The distance itself is tiny around about 1/10000000000 of a metre or one Angstrom for those in the know. But why? Well it all has to do with our good old friend, electro-static repulsion. You see the electrons that make up you and the electrons that make up the chair have a repulsive effect, which means they can only ever come within a certain distance of each other but never touch. This effect is also the reason behind why we can’t walk through walls, despite as you may know matter being almost entirely empty space. Everything that feels solid to you is really just an illusion made by the forces between electrons.

this just blew my mind

i remember my chemistry teacher telling us that in high school. i still think about it sometimes and it blows my mind all over again.

(via christopher-walken)

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   i remember my chemistry teacher telling us that in high school. i still think about it sometimes and it blows my mind...

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    This always gets me. & then I think about holding somebodies hand, but obv truth is you aren’t even touching. So in our...

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    Jesus christ. Commence the trip.

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    You chemistry teacher didn’t know this? Holy jeez. He got his degree at Upstairs Technology College.

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    chemistry when I was...my teacher said I was overthinking and full

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    FINE I’LL JUST FORCE MY ASS DOWN ON THIS CHAIR THEN

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    the world is awesome o___o

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    MY LIFE IS A LIE.

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    ………………..wat.

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    Although this may not be remarkable to most of you it’s something that blows my mind everytime I think about it. Right...

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    So fucking trippy.

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