7 Reasons Why Nothing Is Real And Your Life Is A Lie
6. Youve Never Touched Anyone
The warm touch of a hand, the softness of an old t shirt, a gentle summer breeze on your face - touch is pretty powerful, but it's an illusion. Almost everything in the universe is made up of atoms (apart from the things that aren't but you can't touch them either). Atoms, for a start, are mostly empty space, with a nucleus of protons and neutrons and a cloud of electrons orbiting around it. These subatomic particles have a charge and, like magnets, those with the same charge will repel one another. The reason why you don't go sliding horrifically through your bed when you get in it is due to the electrons in your bed and body repelling one another. The sensation of "touching" something is actually your brain's interpretation of the electromagnetic repulsion between electrons. Things get even more complicated when you take into account the weird world of the quantum, and the dual wave-particle nature of electrons. Technically, their wave packets can overlap when they're being, uh, wavy. So, you'll never be able to gently touch your lover's face (because they electromagnetically repulse you), but you could always try overlapping your wave packets. Very romantic.
