Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-37611621-20190905001504/@comment-43855949-20191104122524

2605:E000:121E:951:542E:6CAA:2A58:928D wrote: when you touch something you know your not actually touching it? I thought about this for a long time bc you really only touch the surface and I always thought that like there was another layer between you and the object you know? and then my brother told me that you never actually touch things and the reason you can feel texture is that it’s like the matter reflecting stuff or something

yeh, electrons repel objects from each other such that as i lie in bed, i am not lying on bed, as i am hovering a few atoms above the bed, and the bed that i feel is just the repulsion force