Can't touch this!?

What if I told you that you've never touched anything before and you never will?!. You'd probably think that I'm mad, yes.

An atom is so small and so empty. An atom is 99.9999% empty space. So then why don't two atoms pass through each other? If they're empty space it should be easy? Right?

My hand should pass through my other hand or the pen I hold. No!

The ELECTRONS in every atom are NEGATIVELY charged, meaning they REPEL each other. In fact the closest one electron can get to the other is a distance of 10^-8 cm!! This means that the electrons in your feet and being repelled by the electrons of the Earths surface! That's why you don't slide through the Earth like a knife through butter. The point is you can't touch anything due to the repulsion of electrons. Be thankful, without electron repulsion nothing would "be" stable.

Thanks. :-) XX

This isn't to scale but it will convey what I'm talking about:

 

I drew this image in PAINT - sorry if the quality is lacking but you get the jist of what I'm talking about. X