Darren New escreveu:
> Warp wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Your ass is supported by beams of light? :-)

I can picture Feynman saying that. :)

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