system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If electrons repelling each other means you never really touch something, how do different things feel differently?
gpt
Different configurations of electrons-repelling-you feel different. Your mistake is in assuming that you have to actually touch something to feel it- that's true for a common-English understanding of what it means to touch things, but not if you insist that touching something only counts if the atoms are knocking into each other with literally zero space between them.