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What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 years ago by zirzedolta@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 28 points 3 years ago (4 children)

We can't touch objects, ever. Most of the space "occupied" by an atom is emptiness (which is another rabbit hole I'm not willing to go down), and when we "touch" an object, it's just a force field pushing the atoms apart. It's the same reason why we don't fall apart into atoms - some invisible force just really wants our atoms to stay together.

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[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

That's just semantics. For any real definition of "touch", we do touch objects.

"to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it"

The electromagnetic fields of your hand come in contact with those of the object, and you feel it.

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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It's taking semantics from one frame of reference and trying to apply them in the frame of reference of an entirely different scale, realizing that it doesn't work the same way, and then claiming that it is therefore "wrong".

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[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 point 3 years ago

The only thing I took away from this (when I learnt it years ago) is that telekinesis is possible and we do it daily, we just need to improve its range.

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[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

So how does cutting an apple in half work? The knife must be touching the apple to cut it, right?

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[–] menturi@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

You can kind of visualize it as wire EDM manufacturing. Although not a fully accurate depiction, but it fractures the connection between the two sides.

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[–] Eranziel@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

That analogy relies on the reader having any idea what wire EDM manufacturing is. ;) Not exactly an everyday topic.

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