Héctor

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You’ve never touched anything in your life. Not your phone. Not your morning coffee. Not the person you love.

Every atom in your body is 99.9999999999999% empty space. If the core of an atom were the size of a marble, the nearest electron would be all the way out in the parking lot of a football stadium. Everything in between is empty.

We’ve known this since 1911. A physicist named Ernest Rutherford fired tiny particles at a sheet of gold foil expecting them all to pass right through. Most did. But about 1 in 8,000 bounced straight back at him. He said it was like firing a cannon at tissue paper and having the shell come back and hit you. That one result proved every atom is almost entirely void, with all its weight crammed into a core 100,000 times smaller than the atom itself.

So when you sit in a chair, you’re not actually sitting on it. The electrons in your body are pushing against the electrons in the chair. Same force that makes two magnets resist each other when you flip one around. You’re floating above the surface, separated by a gap about 10,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper. Every handshake is two invisible clouds of electrons pressing against each other without ever merging.

Remove all that empty space from every atom in every human on Earth, and 8 billion people compress down to a single sugar cube. It would weigh billions of tons and fall straight through the floor, through the crust, all the way to the center of the Earth. Same density as a neutron star.

But the tweet gets one thing a little wrong. Whether atoms “touch” depends on how you define touch. Philip Moriarty, a physicist at the University of Nottingham who literally pushes individual atoms around with a needle for a living, says contact does happen at the atomic level. It’s the point where the pull between atoms balances the push. And when you eat food, your body breaks those molecules apart and chemically bonds with them, atoms merging across boundaries. That’s real contact.

So what you feel when you hold someone’s hand isn’t skin on skin. It’s the same force that holds together every molecule in every star, pressing your electrons against theirs. You’ve never made contact the way your brain pictures it. What’s actually happening is stranger and honestly way cooler.

[Alcatraz @RufiEnLancha]

O el 25 o el Career Grand Slam más joven de la historia.

Pase lo que pase, vamos a vivir presenciar historia.

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

A rivalry from another DIMENSION 🪐

Who’s ready for the 2025 season finale?!

@carlosalcaraz @janniksin #NittoATPFinals

[Carson Branstine @carsonbranstine]

Generally speaking, tennis is in fact a perfect sport. Everyone loves tennis. Everyone respects it. It’s fashion, it’s timeless, elegant, exciting, and takes genuine skill. Works every part of your body / brain. So cool.

[Alcatraz @RufiEnLancha]

VICTOOOOORIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Ponedle el techo, que le da exactamente igual. Qué absoluta barbaridad de final. Un pequeño susto con ese segundo set, pero ya sabéis…

ES SU FORMA DE OPERAR Y HAY QUE RESPETARLA.

[Gon @bellingjamonn]

Nadal vs Djokovic 2012 // Alcaraz vs Sinner 2025

[Alcatraz @RufiEnLancha]

Hay peña que ve esto y dice que el tenis no es el mejor deporte del mundo.

Pero esperad, es que hay gente que le gusta el tenis y quiere quitar que los Grand Slams sean al mejor de cinco sets.

Y están entre nosotros.

[Alcatraz @RufiEnLancha]

Escribir esta frase en la cámara y luego ganar el torneo clavándole un 6-1 en la final a Sinner en su casa.

Ser fan de este tío es lo mejor que me ha pasado en la vida.

[Alcatraz @RufiEnLancha]

Esto no tiene ni pies ni cabeza

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

Stop it, Carlos 😱

@carlosalcaraz #abnamroopen

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[Spainball @Espball]

España es el mejor país del mundo a mucha diferencia del segundo.

[Alcatraz @RufiEnLancha]

Tie break para la historia

[Héctor @hectormr23]

@Estheeer_14 Cree en ti !!!

[Friends Addiction @friendsadiciton]

“The One Where We All Lost A Friend” 💔

[José Morgado @josemorgado]

Ladies and Gentlemen: Sir Andy Murray:

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Tomorrow night. My last match. Doubles with @RafaelNadal 💪🏽❤️

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

❤️

[Héctor @hectormr23]

@tuurbokid @danihp6_ Espectacular

[Chess.com @chesscom]

Congratulations to @MagnusCarlsen on winning his 5th World Championship match and further cementing his legacy as arguably the greatest player in chess history!