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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How can electrons be so small but still be able to counteract the charge of the much larger protons?
gpt
Because they have the same charge. Charge is a fundamental property of a particle - it's not like subatomic particles are made of "charge stuff" where the larger the particle is the more charge it has. It doesn't even really make sense to talk about the "size" of particles. Electrons are point-like and protons are fuzzy blobs of quarks and gluons which in turn are also point-like.

If you really want an kinda-not-totally-wrong intuitive analogy, think density. A one-kilogram ball of gold is much smaller than a one-kilogram ball of wood.