The same thing happens any time you “touch” any apparently solid object. There is nothing solid there to touch. If you are reading this book in your hand, then your hand is not actually touching it. Rather, the nonphysical tornado-like clouds of atoms are repelling one another at unimaginably tiny distances so that you have the illusion of touching something solid. That apparent solidity of touch is all coming from the sensation of the electrostatic repulsion between the atoms. Indeed, you’re not even touching the chair you’re sitting on; instead, you’re hovering one 100-millionth of a
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