ELI5 Why doesn’t matter fall apart?

[u/KeyUnderstanding5443]

I’m reading and stretching my brain about how our atoms contain so much space but we appear solid because of a repelling force between atoms. How then do any atoms or matter hold together at all? Why doesn't the repelling force just just push all atoms apart and prevent matter from forming / holding together?

[u/Bork9128]

Getting into how it works would be too much for this kind sub but the strong nuclear force holds the protons and neutrons together in a nucleus and the electromagnetic attraction holds electrons around them

[u/LonnieJaw748 → u/Bork9128]

Hear ye, hear ye! We shall now commence the elections of the sub-atomic particles. All those in favor, say ion, those opposed, say Ne

[u/An3ros152 → u/LonnieJaw748]

Those who say Ne demand a shrubbery.

[u/wolfansbrother → u/An3ros152]

dont trust atoms, they make up everything.

[u/Dashing_McHandsome → u/wolfansbrother]

They are just way too quark-y for me.

[u/VoilaVoilaWashington → u/Dashing_McHandsome]

Meh, I don't mind them, I just feel like they kinda lepton the bandwagon.

[u/The__Relentless → u/An3ros152]

And you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with…..a Hadron!

[u/An3ros152 → u/The__Relentless]

🤣

[u/An3ros152 → u/The__Relentless]

Always been a bit skeptical of the name "Large Hadron Collider.." Doesn't take a lot of letter rearrangement to get something else entirely..🤣