2009-07-04, 12:52 AM
I am not a scientist, but I suspect the answer has something to do with atoms and such. I guess the nuclei can't come into contact so I guess the distance never reaches 0? But what if you measure distance by electron orbits intead? I dunno if the concept of distance is well-defined at such microscopic levels. For practical purposes, if objects are touching, there's 0 distance between them.

