i know this question has been asked before but i wanted to be more precise. is there anything between atoms INCLUDING the electron cloud? to the electron clouds ever touch?
im writing a sci fi character who does this phasing thing you see in stuff like the flash. the ability to move through solid objects.
ive found multiple sources saying that two atoms cant share space because of electron clouds, but is there not space between the electron clouds? or are the electron clouds a gradient of sorts? neither a regular search engine nor the google ai can find me an article abut this so i figured id try here.
my hope is that the idea of two characters being fused into one, as if they were quantum tunneled together, is at least theoretically possible. i want to be able to explain as much as i can to the reader before i am forced to say “its alien tech we don’t understand yet”