The Middle School Quantum Crisis

That moment when your 12-year-old brain discovers atoms are mostly empty space and suddenly your entire reality crumbles! The classic middle school existential crisis where you learn about electron clouds and atomic structure, then immediately jump to "wait, so I should be able to walk through walls?!"

What they don't teach you in 6th grade is that electromagnetic forces between atoms are what prevent you from ghost-mode teleporting through your desk. Those pesky electron clouds repel each other with such force that solid matter feels, well, solid.

But honestly, who among us didn't try to phase through a wall at least once after learning this fact? Science class: creating unrealistic expectations since forever.