Yes. Because we are touching billions and trillions of atoms at the same time with an object composed of the same structure. Besides, our neurons can only differentiate a couple of million atoms at the most sensitive end of the scale! differences in how surfaces feel depends on the tiny irregularities in the surface and also on the frequency of the larger regular patterns. And on the surface of the object of course, otherwise it would be a crazy world we live in if our senses decided no to represent the real world anymore!
Thats easy. The physical receptors on the tips of our fingers, or the photonic receptors that makes up our eyes are themselves made up of individual atomic particles. Their total diamter, therfore, is larger by definition than the gap between any single pair of atomic structures. Thus, we are incapable of observing (via either touch or sight) gaps smaller than the scale of our receptors, as they will not recieve submacroscopic data. As this data will not be sent to the mind, it will never be available for interpreation. As it will never be interpreted, the human mind is itself incapable of understanding that gaps of that microscopic nature can and do exist. Show a caveman an microscopic image captured with a telescope at 1,000x scale, and he will understand only that he is looking at a macroscopic image (itself made of individual atoms). Only armed with pre-explanation as to the nature of such an image can he understand that though he is seeing the macroscopic the data contained therein was captured at microscopic scale.
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