Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
Friday, July 11, 2025
I was just curious about the everyday phenomenon of " COLLISION "
[ "In everyday collisions of ordinary material objects, the dominant atomic forces at play are electromagnetic forces, specifically those involving the interactions between the electron clouds of the colliding objects.
Here's a breakdown:
Electron Cloud Repulsion: As objects approach each other during a collision, the negatively charged electron clouds surrounding the atoms of each object experience mutual repulsion due to the fundamental principle that like charges repel. This repulsion acts like a spring, pushing the atoms apart as the collision progresses.
Pauli Repulsion: While the repulsion between atomic nuclei also exists, the primary repulsive force during a collision of everyday objects is due to the Pauli exclusion principle acting on the electrons in the filled shells of the atoms. According to Florida State University, this "Pauli repulsion" or "exclusion principle repulsion" prevents electrons from occupying the same quantum state, leading to a strong repulsive force when the electron clouds overlap.
Electromagnetic Interaction: The overall "collision" in this context is not a direct physical contact in the sense of two solid objects impacting. Instead, it is an interaction between the electromagnetic fields generated by the electrons of the colliding objects. The electrons emit and absorb virtual photons during this interaction, mediating the force that causes the objects to effectively bounce off each other.
Short-Range Interactions: These repulsive forces are primarily short-range interactions, meaning they become significant only when the atoms are very close to each other, on the order of the size of the electron shells.
In essence, when ordinary objects collide, the electromagnetic forces between their electron clouds are responsible for the repulsion that prevents them from passing through each other and dictates the outcome of the collision.
quantum mechanics - How electromagnetic force makes the collision? - Physics Stack Exchange
May 16, 2018 — Electromagnetic force is one of the four fundamental forces that can cause collisions. When atoms collide, there is repulsion between the electron clouds of the... "]
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