If electrons exist as a probability distribution then in what sense do they move around the atom?
Very likely some of my understanding here is wrong, so I'll try to clearly restate what I think I've heard physicists say.
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Electrons exist as a probability distribution around the nucleus of an atom so that we cannot say where they are located but only give a likelihood of them existing in various places.
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Electrons move around the nucleus at some speed.
These two conceptions of electrons seem to contradict each other.
Posted Sep 16, 2015, 6:20 AM UTC
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