(March 29, 2022 at 4:41 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(March 29, 2022 at 3:05 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: So instead of picturing an electron buzzing around within its probability wave at extreme speeds, or being the whole wave itself, would it be better to imagine the electron… teleporting within its probability wave? And the nature of where it teleports within the wave is truly random?
That is closer, but it still has the idea that the particle has a definite position at all times.
That’s where my understanding disintegrates. The basics of how I’m understanding everything said so far is that the particle has location, except it actually doesn’t. But I also don’t think that’s what you’re saying. Unless it is and in that case I’m not sure how to visualize it at all.
Right now, I’m visualizing an electron orbiting a nucleus, and it’s essentially a cloud around the nucleus where it teleports around randomly within its wave function at a very high “rate”.
