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Why Nothing You Touch Is Actually Solid

Nothing in your body has ever actually touched anything else.

Nothing in your body has ever actually touched anything else.
Not your atoms. Not your molecules. Not even your cells.

When you press your finger against your phone, they don’t make contact.
They can’t.
Before the atoms in your skin get close enough to meet the atoms in the metal, their electron clouds push back with a powerful electromagnetic force.

That force stops everything, at every level, from ever truly touching.

So what do you feel?
You feel the force itself.
Your brain turns that invisible push into pressure and texture…

You experience touch every day…
but underneath it all, the world is built from a lot of space and invisible forces.

You’re so much more than what you see.

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