You Can't Touch Anything
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And today we're going to get close, like really close.In fact, I want to answer the question what's the closest we can get to other objectsand other people?Now, it might sound like kind of a simple easy question,but when we get down to the atoms of it,it's quite complex and might leave you feeling a little bit alone.When I go like this, my fingers, for all intents and purposes, are touching.But, at an atomic level, they're not.That's right, in fact, if you're sitting in a chairright now, your body is technically not touching the chairat all. Instead, you are hovering above the chairby some tiny, tiny atomically sized gap,something too small for us to even see, but it's there.And it&a...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And today we're going to get close, like really close.In fact, I want to answer the question what's the closest we can get to other objectsand other people?Now, it might sound like kind of a simple easy question,but when we get down to the atoms of it,it's quite complex and might leave you feeling a little bit alone.When I go like this, my fingers, for all intents and purposes, are touching.But, at an atomic level, they're not.That's right, in fact, if you're sitting in a chairright now, your body is technically not touching the chairat all. Instead, you are hovering above the chairby some tiny, tiny atomically sized gap,something too small for us to even see, but it's there.And it&a...
