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The force that keeps you from falling through your own chair, dressed as a feeling.
means A strong feeling of disgust or aversion that drives you to recoil from something, or in physics the force pushing two objects apart.
from From Latin repulsus, the past participle of repellere — re- ("back") plus pellere ("to drive, push"), so literally "a driving back." That same pellere fathered a whole family of shoves: repel, compel, propel, expel, dispel. English borrowed repulsion through the late medieval period, first for the physical act of pushing away and later for the inner shove of distaste — the body recoiling and the soul recoiling sharing one Latin root.
- electron snub
- Two electrons refuse to share the same quantum state
- solid ground
- You never truly touch anything, only repel it
- magnet logic
- Like poles flee each other with measurable force
- gut origin
- Disgust likely evolved to keep us from poison
- casimir twist
- Repulsion can sometimes flip to attraction at tiny scales
duck and cover — 1950s us civil defense campaign teaching children to crouch under desks during nuclear attacks, based on psychological repulsion from atomic threat
david cronenberg's the fly — 1986 horror film where jeff goldblum's gradual transformation into a fly-insect hybrid provokes visceral repulsion as defining emotion
coulomb's law — physics principle showing electrons repel each other with measurable force inversely proportional to distance squared