/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3121599]

Actually, you don't touch anything.

Look around you. You're not touching your mouse nor your keyboard. Your ass is not touching the chair. Your mother has never touched you. Your girlfriend is not touching your dick nor you have ever touched her pussie. You haven't touched anything at all.

Why? Because of one single thing. Electrons.

As electrons are in the atom's orbital, when you are `touching` something, it, actually, gets repelled, as the electrons of the atoms that compose your body get near to the electrons of whatever shit you're trying to `touch`, the other electrons get repelled because of equal charges.

How do you feel now?

[EK !EKFQOBUFnQ No.3121608]

that still counts as touching.

[Anonymous No.3121618]

>>3121608
>that still counts as touching.
Practically: Yes
Technically: No.

[Anonymous No.3121628]

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3121633]

OP has changed my life.

Me and my romantic parter will jump into a fusion tokamak so we'll be dissolved into our compounding protons and become one in the magnetic fields.

[Anonymous No.3121638]

I already knew that.

[Anonymous No.3121650]

Wow you do realize how little energy one electron or even one atom has?
Fucking summerfags

[Anonymous No.3121662]

>pussie

[Anonymous No.3121663]

The thing we do with electrons and moving macroscopical things?

That's the definition of touching. Even if dumbfucks don't understand how it works, it doesn't change the fact that that is what touching IS.

[Anonymous No.3121671]

My hand is actually connected to my body because the atoms don't touch.

[Anonymous No.3121681]

Doesn't matter. You're not being very logical and objective OP, just becaue you've been psychologically indoctrinated from birth to value the physical property of 2 mathematically abstract volumes making contact with each other doesn't mean everyone else has.

[Anonymous No.3121673]

>>3121618
Practically: yes
Technically: yes

Just because you're too stupid to see how something stays the same thing even after it's explained on a more fundamental level doesn't mean it stops being that thing.

[Jennie No.3121691]

>>3121599
we define touching as the distance where electromagnetic force completely cancels out any other forces on a surface. There's no such thing as two particles "touching" in a universe filled with quanta.

[Anonymous No.3121697]

>>3121599
>electrons

Sure is second grade in here

[Anonymous No.3121727]

>>3121633
That sounds like a fucking awesome way to commit suicide.

[Anonymous No.3121746]

I feel good

[Anonymous No.3121782]

>>3121673

Depends on what you mean by technically. The word touch refers to what happens when two macroscopic objects get close enough to each other that they repel each other. Our intuition is that when two things touch, that is because they have no distance between them and that rigid objects fundamentally cannot move through each other. It turns out this is an oversimplification.

Whether or not "touching" refers to what we think is going on (two objects with no distance between them) or what is actually going on is really a matter of semantics. When the word was first developed, people did not know there was a difference. There's some interesting philosophical value in ruminating on the difference between touching in the first sense and touching in the second sense, but that's all it is: an occasionally interesting "if a tree falls in an empty forest does it make a sound?" bit of philosophy.

[None !!dTYBwjAGYdo No.3121984]

heat transfers easily enough, how do you explain that? i think your next lifetime should be dedicated to getting the meaning of the word touched changed to a, "state of mind". good luck

[Anonymous No.3121999]

I feel clean

[Anonymous No.3122048]

>>3121599
how can they not touch me if I'm not even touching myself

>I mean, when I think about you

[Anonymous No.3122088]

>>3121691
this.