On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:02:56 +0100, Norman Wells wrote:
The trouble is, you've taken a theory that explains away certain
phenomena that occur in really extreme circumstances only

And you overlook the fact that matter is composed of particles which
exist in "extreme circumstances", and individually do not behave in
the same manner as the total assembly of those particles.

Just consider two like charged objects -- move them together and they
will repel each other, even if you hold them close together.

But protons are positively charged and they happily exist very close
to each other in the nucleus even though their is an electrostatic
repulsion between them.