It is common knowledge that atoms do not touch one another, they rather orient themselves into electromagnetic alignments of form and patterns. so what we appear to touch is but the electromagnetic-field signature of that pattern. So then what is real?
2006-11-06 16:06:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
If our reality is purely electrical how do we know we are not in a simulation like that in the movie the Matrix?
2006-11-07 05:08:39 · update #1
Electromagnetic interaction between atoms IS "touching," in any physically meaningful sense of the word.
2006-11-06 16:42:32 · answer #1 · answered by randomstupidhandle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that amazing - you can't even calculate the space between atoms. The reality we experience doesn't make sense - we don't even understand the forces that hold things together.
2006-11-06 16:09:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything is still real. We just aren't (in the most technically possible sense) coming into physical contact with anything. That doesn't mean it isn't there. Good question though.
2006-11-06 16:10:25 · answer #3 · answered by The Wired 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reality is not defined by what we can touch, but what we experience. Love is something untouchable, but it is the greatest aspiration of mankind.
2006-11-06 16:09:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Touch something. You will find out.
2006-11-06 16:13:19 · answer #5 · answered by producer_vortex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋