Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27821571-20160915183730/@comment-734582-20161001084558

Actionmanrandell wrote: just watched a video on gravity last week. the video specifically stated that. it said that if humans did not emit a magnetic field we would be pulled straight down into the ground until we hit the core of earths gravity. I'm not sure how i can explain this without resorting to complex concepts. However, what you're saying implies that our body emits an electric field which counteracts gravity, but that's not the case.

The electrons in atoms do not follow planet-like orbits but rather exist as shells (that can have some very weird shapes). Each shell has a specific energy level and due to quantum-mechanical mechanisms, no two electrons can take the same "energy state" in these shells.

So the atoms in our feet feel the atoms in the ground, but because of the nature of atoms they can't pass through each other, not because of an electric field but rather because (bound) electrons can't be in the same space.

It's a very very crude way of saying it but i can't go much deeper without having to explain the basics of quantum mechanics much further.