/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8741830

What i mean by touching is, like you said
>They touch when they reach the minimum possible distance between them. By definition, they can touch

Ok, so let me go full blown retard here and take you back to the basket ball example.

Imagine a basket ball, around it there a thick layer of electrons, and there's a space between the ball and the thick layer. And now there a single photon heading towards the ball, could it get past the layer and reach the ball? Or even the space between the ball and the layer?