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corrected spelling; side-stepped potential arguments about whether microscopic world counts as "real"

Why don't things get destroyed by gas molecules flying around?

Gas molecules go at an insane velocity, and though they are miniscule, yet there is a LOT of them. Of course, because of all these molecules hurtling around, there is air pressure; yet if you envision a lot of bullets flying around, they don't really "apply pressure": they smash stuff. So why aren't things being destroyed by these mini-torpedoes?

I sense the reason they don't wreak havoc is because they are not coordinated, i.e. they are random. Also things may not work out microscopically as they do macroscopically.

HyperLuminal
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