So you can still “feel” pressure, temperature, pain and everything else we lump together as “touch”…because a gap smaller than an atom doesn’t really have that much effect on the sensors in your skin and flesh.
And Electrostatic repulsion is not quite what does it. The real reason that you don’t fall through the floor is the Pauli exclusion principle. It is also the reason why there are different orbitals in the atoms to begin with.Everything else here is factual just not the cause of the repulsion.
You can also watch the latest version of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”, Episode 6 “Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still” show on National Geographic Channel hosted by renowned astrophysicist Dr Neil De Grasse Tyson if your want to understand more about the ‘invisible’ force repel by the nucleus between the atoms. The science behind is explained through the scene when a boy use a finger to ‘touch’ a girl’s face.
Ragtime78rpm over 10 years ago
If that’s so, why do different surfaces feel different when I “touch” them?
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 10 years ago
A very touching strip.Almost.
crobinson019 over 10 years ago
Poor Albert! And here I thought HE would be the annoying sibling…
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 10 years ago
Ragtime…the gap is “subatomic.”
So you can still “feel” pressure, temperature, pain and everything else we lump together as “touch”…because a gap smaller than an atom doesn’t really have that much effect on the sensors in your skin and flesh.
katzenbooks45 over 10 years ago
Electrostatic repulsion is what Pam feels for most of the crew.
Major_JF over 10 years ago
And Electrostatic repulsion is not quite what does it. The real reason that you don’t fall through the floor is the Pauli exclusion principle. It is also the reason why there are different orbitals in the atoms to begin with.Everything else here is factual just not the cause of the repulsion.
WaitingMan over 10 years ago
Zeno’s Paradox says you can never touch anything (sort of).
Be M over 10 years ago
@Number Six
You can also watch the latest version of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”, Episode 6 “Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still” show on National Geographic Channel hosted by renowned astrophysicist Dr Neil De Grasse Tyson if your want to understand more about the ‘invisible’ force repel by the nucleus between the atoms. The science behind is explained through the scene when a boy use a finger to ‘touch’ a girl’s face.
patsy62 over 10 years ago
Sunday’s strip is worth wading through the groaners during the rest of the week
topbunk over 10 years ago
Even at the Planck Length? I’m not so sure.
klunker rider over 10 years ago
Mom! Sis is electrostaticly repulsing me again!