Have you ever wonder how close can
two people physically get? When you put your hands together they are touching…
but down at the atomic level they are not really touching each other. And when
you are up on your feet you are not really touching the floor you are hovering.
It is because between your feet and the ground there is a tiny tiny tiny atomic
size gap that is so small that you cannot even see, but it is there. You know
why? Because your feet and the ground is made out of atoms; a nucleus
surrounded by an outer shell of orbiting electrons. When two atoms that is close
to each other and aren’t going to bond or chemically react, they have trouble
touching each other. Know why? Is because electrons repel one and another and
these electrons have the same charge. Also because this “Pauli exclusion principle”
all of its atoms electrons cannot be all pushed down to the same energy level.
Therefore, when you are touching something, you are actually not… but down at
the atomic level you are pretty close.
Another thing is that when you
touch something you can feel like. Why? Is because of the nerves in your skin
can feel the repulsive force of the texture or the feeling of the object. Also,
for example, when you use a scissor and take a piece of paper, the scissor
blade’s atoms is just pushing through the atoms of the paper using the electrons
repulsion forces. But the sad thing is that when you are kissing your
boyfriend/girlfriend you are not making contact with their matter, you are just
feeling the repulsive force of their electrons. After all that said, the
closest, people can touch each other is when both your parents are combining
their DNA in a chemical way to make you. In a way your parents and your
children are the only people that you can know for certain you have come the
closest to actually touching.
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