What is Touch?
In this quantum world, what does it mean to touch something? Do we really hover above the chairs we're sitting in? MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://faceboo...
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When people say:"When you sit in a chair like I'm sitting in this chair right now""I'm actually hovering over this chair""but actually my butt is hovering above the chair by thisjust tiny tiny amout" "because of the electrons of my body""because the electrons of my butt" "are repelling the electrons of this chair""it's not us actually touching the subatomic material of the object"Is that really true? Does it mean that MC Hammer has just been singing about physics all along?"Can't touch this !!"Alas, this doesn't take into account the fact that the universe is quantum mechanicalFor ex...
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When people say:"When you sit in a chair like I'm sitting in this chair right now""I'm actually hovering over this chair""but actually my butt is hovering above the chair by thisjust tiny tiny amout" "because of the electrons of my body""because the electrons of my butt" "are repelling the electrons of this chair""it's not us actually touching the subatomic material of the object"Is that really true? Does it mean that MC Hammer has just been singing about physics all along?"Can't touch this !!"Alas, this doesn't take into account the fact that the universe is quantum mechanicalFor ex...
