Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   Btw, I have never quite understood the reason why objects can't go
> > inside each other (given that objects are actually practically empty
> > space with staggeringly tiny corpuscules here and there, at relatively
> > enormous distances from each other).

> Electrons are emitting and absorbing virtual photons in huge numbers all the 
> time. (It's the same thing keeping the electrons in "orbit" around the protons.)

> The photons go between the nearby electrons in your arm and in the chair, 
> changing the motion of both electrons such that they do not continue getting 
> closer to each other.

  I didn't understand that at all.

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                                                          - Warp

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