Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 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? :-)

> Basically, all electrons are constantly emitting and re-absorbing photons. 
> When two electrons get close enough, they start emitting photons that the 
> other electron absorbs. This changes the motion of the electrons such that 
> they won't get too close to each other.

  I still don't quite get it. Well, I suppose I will have to submit to the
fact that I have never understood it, and I still don't understand it.

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                                                          - Warp

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