Solidity
Repelled by atomic energy
With the illusion of reality
Solidity as a fiction.
There’s a force-field
That stops us sinking
Through the ground –
Melting through the universe.
Huge spaces between
The tightest packed nuclei
Like space between the stars.
As hand hits table
No matter really touches
Just a force-field.
We are held together
By wonder.
Opher 30.7.2018
I’m always fascinated by the macrocosm and microcosm and here we are stuck in the middle unable to really see either.
In relative terms there is as much space between the atoms in a solid object as there is space between stars. It seems to me that even with the zillions of atoms in a solid object we should be able to bring two objects together and slide the atoms past each other without a single collision of nuclei. What prevents us is the force-field between them.
Solidity is an illusion.