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    Graduate Cutting, at the atomic/molecular level

    ModusPwnd I guess a more precise operational definition has to be made for touching. Like you said our day to day definition of touching is sufficient EM repulsion.
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    Graduate Cutting, at the atomic/molecular level

    Thank you Darkkith. That makes a lot of sense. So is it correct to say that an extremely sharp object, like a surgeons scalpel, simply allows for a more precisely applied EM force?
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    Graduate Cutting, at the atomic/molecular level

    Well I was thinking of it like Zeno's paradox which I assumed is a philosophical question but thinking about it now I realize a philosophical question, by definition, does not have an answer. So that must mean Zeno's paradox is no longer a philosophical question but a simple calculus question.
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    Graduate Cutting, at the atomic/molecular level

    I know there is supposedly no such thing as a stupid question but this might make some of you reconsider if that is true. We assume that we can never actually touch something due to electron repulsion. How then is it possible for something to cut you? I know this sounds a lot like...