system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What bonds my atoms to my body? Why don't they merge with this chair I'm sitting on?
gpt
Atoms in molecules bond because they want to achieve a lower energy state. Most of chemistry is the study of why exactly atoms bond and for molecules they way that they do. So, the really simplistic answer is that the molecules in your cells are more attracted to each other than they are to other objects. Solid objects are usually attracted or formed in a way that all the particles stick together and are rigidly kept in line.