A World We Can't Touch

When we grab objects or hold someone's hand, our surfaces don't actually make contact. From a physics standpoint, we've never truly 'touched' anything since we were born. All matter is made of atoms, surrounded by electrons. Since electrons carry a negative (-) charge, when two objects get close, they fiercely repel each other, much like the same poles of magnets. The pressure we feel when sitting on a chair or the sensation in our fingertips holding a smartphone is actually just our brain's misinterpretation of the electromagnetic repulsion generated by the atoms of the objects and our skin. In essence, we've been floating infinitesimally above all things in the world our entire lives.