The answers to ´wrong´ questions
Mostly nothing.. no touch Matter seen on an atomic level is mostly empty space and the atoms themselves are mostly empty space. Bizarrely, this means nothing ever touches anything else (In the sense that atoms or molecules would ´bounce´ of each other. What happens when two objects bounce of each other is that an enormous amount of small magnetic fields interfere and change speed. But atoms never ´meet´. This trend of mostly nothing is also seen in space. It seems there is predominantly nothing in the universe and really very little everything. This makes the way we usually think about what happens in nature wrong. It´s not logical matter can ´hit´ other matter, it´s quite surprising. There is not really a reason why matter shouldn´t phase through other matter, atoms just moving aside a little. It just doesn´t seem to happen. This makes almost every question we ask about the phenomenal world subtly wrong. Entropy & Time Why does time exist? Entropy according to the second ...