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    ellavandalfsen
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    I would say to the child that the electron moves very fast in the atom and that we never exactly know where it is. Scientists can perform measurements and can take a lot of “pictures” at certain times. The “time-averaged position” is then like figuring out where the electron spends most of its time on average.

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