February 10th, 2013 at 11:21PM
If you were standing at arm’s length from someone and each of you had one percent more electrons than protons, the repelling force would be incredible. How great? Enough to lift the Empire State Building? No! To lift Mount Everest? No! The repulsion would be enough to lift a β€œweight” equal to that of the entire earth! —

Richard Feynman; The Feynman Lectures on Physics (via astronomerinprogress)

Whoa. That’s, uh, a lot. I love you Feynman.

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