in the movie "what the bleep do we know" i learn that electrons repel each other. so i guess were not really touching anything? my bio teacher tells us this but i dont really understand how and why this happens. can someone help me understand this better?
2007-01-25 15:43:50 · 2 answers · asked by onefastda9 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Electrons repel each other because they have the same (negative) charge.
2007-01-25 15:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by Lee W. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, i saw that movie too, you need to see it a couple of times before you understand it all.
We really aren't touching anything in the sense of actually making contact with other atomic particles. The sensation of touch is all an effect of the forces repelling each other in nearby objects but it acts at such a small scale that we can't even really comprehend instinctively how that works, because our brain is so hardwired into "'I' touched 'that' and it felt 'hard'" All of those concepts at a sub atomic level don't really mean the same thing as the macro world that we see. This is the sort of stuff that Scientists get prizes for explaining scientifically, so don't worry if you're not quite getting the idea.
2007-01-26 01:02:36 · answer #2 · answered by Cara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋