Can Atoms Ever Touch?

There ’s a very commonly held sentiment that speck can never touch : bring them together slowly , and you achieve a point where they begin to repel . But in this video , Professor Philip Moriarty explains that really is n’t the eccentric .

Philip is a little pissed by many of the word online about how atom repel , never to touch each other . So allow him to talk atoms , van der Waals forces , and internet stupidity . He ’s both amusingly indignant and factually interesting at the same clock time . I ’d love to have been learn by this guy . [ Sixty Symbols ]

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