Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for June 29, 2014

If that’s so, why do different surfaces feel different when I “touch” them?

A very touching strip.Almost.

Poor Albert! And here I thought HE would be the annoying sibling…

Ragtime…the gap is “subatomic.”

So you can still “feel” pressure, temperature, pain and everything else we lump together as “touch”…because a gap smaller than an atom doesn’t really have that much effect on the sensors in your skin and flesh.

Electrostatic repulsion is what Pam feels for most of the crew.

And Electrostatic repulsion is not quite what does it. The real reason that you don’t fall through the floor is the Pauli exclusion principle. It is also the reason why there are different orbitals in the atoms to begin with.Everything else here is factual just not the cause of the repulsion.

Zeno’s Paradox says you can never touch anything (sort of).

@Number Six

You can also watch the latest version of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”, Episode 6 “Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still” show on National Geographic Channel hosted by renowned astrophysicist Dr Neil De Grasse Tyson if your want to understand more about the ‘invisible’ force repel by the nucleus between the atoms. The science behind is explained through the scene when a boy use a finger to ‘touch’ a girl’s face.

Sunday’s strip is worth wading through the groaners during the rest of the week

Even at the Planck Length? I’m not so sure.

Mom! Sis is electrostaticly repulsing me again!