1s electron

[Daniel]

Alright, imagine you are really tiny, like super tiny, and you sit right at the center of a hydrogen nucleus. You have a little friend, an electron, that’s zooming around you. Now, this electron is quite quick and zips around really fast, so it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where it is at any given moment.

However, if you watch this electron over a long period of time, like a lot of zipping around, you’ll notice something interesting. Even though you can’t predict exactly where it will be at any particular moment, on average, it spends more time in certain areas than others. It’s like watching a playful butterfly – you can’t predict its exact path, but you know it likes to hang out around certain flowers.

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