I wasn't realy sure were to put this but im a highschool student learning about magnetic fields and the more i learn about anything in science the more questions i have in general but this one is particularly bothering me, ok so what i have learned is that a magnetic field is the electrons loosly circling around an object so if thats true then when you hold a magnet about lets say an inch away then the electrons from both fields are touching around a half inch away(just an example im sure that the mesurment of how far the the field on either object is conditional) im just confused because i thought it was all packed so tight that it would be a smaller distance.
also i have a theory but google isn't helping me out much with this the only think i can think of is that there are microscopic pieces of the magnet and the object around them that are bumping into eachother because i was thinking about when you smell something thats microscopic pieces of something touching the back of your toung and if you can have pieciece of that without visualy taking away from the whole that it might be the same concept but i was hoping for a second opinion or someone who actualy knows to assure this or lead me to the right direction