You really are funny
I just wanted to share this, even though I know most people know it, but I still find it fascinating.
Exactly.yup thats true, the reason why we can touch each other and not pass directly through ppl, is bcoz of the eletromagnetic force field that those atoms create, so the person you touch is actually just the forcefields interacting. should try reading what happens in empty space/vacuum according to quantum field theory that would blow your mind.
This is not correct, the empty space is way more than 99.99%.
I mean... this is sort of silly. We define yellow as things that reflect light in that spectrum.
It reminds me of NDT on Cosmos talking about how we never actually touch each other, on the atomic level or whatever. Which ... sure, but that's not really how human beings define "touching". It's an interesting fact but it's not really meaningful in the day to day human world. We *do* touch each other because that's just how we define touch on the macro level. Sure things aren't actually yellow/ it's just an interpretation by our eyes/brains, but that interpretation is what makes yellow yellow. Yellow exists as that interpretation and not really anything else. So... as we define yellow, lemons are yellow.
I've now typed "yellow" enough times that it looks to me like it's spelled wrong. I hate when this happens. :\
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Well, according to modern particle physics, we are either 100% empty space or we are 100% full space. The thing is, particles do not have "size" the way we understand it, they are not some kind of spheres we can touch, but they are rather just fields, mathematically - wave functions spread across all the space. So, we are either 100% empty if you don't count the fields as a matter, or we are 100% full since even one particle in its light cone fills the total space with its wave function.
Of course you can make different interpretations, such as considering an atom 100% full, that is considering that atom has the "size" of its largest electron orbit - but that would not be entirely accurate.
"There is no greater void than the one between your ears..."
-Void Ray. Starcraft 2.
There might have been interesting discussion on this topic, but the way this thread went was just terrible. I see no alternative then to close this mess.
CLOSED.