Observer inside hydrogen nucleus

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    If you were sitting inside the hydrogen nucleus, you would see that the 1s electron does not just circle around you, but actually spends some of its time right there at the center with you. It’s time-averaged position looks like a ‘charge cloud’ that overlaps with the space the nucleus occupies.

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