Plus, even atoms are mostly empty space.
What has always seemed cool to me about this concept is that the sensation of solidity, of touch, is really the byproduct of the chemical bonds that hold atoms floating in stasis near to each other. If you think about how much of your skin is actually empty space — and how much of that table is also empty space — it’s near-miraculous that you can reach out and touch it, not pass right through it.
Those chemical bonds, when you think about it on an atomic level? They’re basically force fields.
Cooooooooooool.
(From Les Yeux, via @Coudal)
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Colin says:
6 January 2011 at 9:53 am (UTC -5)
It can’t be mere coincidence that this post is immediately preceded by one about guzzling year-old eggnog…