> > "Really," what's going on is fuzzy concentrations of energy--
> > these are particles, including the ordinary ones like protons--
> > that are near each other, or maybe overlapping each other.
> > We talk about electron orbits, but they aren't like planetary
> > orbits.
>
> Clouds?
Oh, yes. I've seen the metaphor "probability cloud" in this field. The
human mind is so desperate for a way to make this look familiar, that it
will accept metaphors with less than 50% accuracy in modeling.
"Probability cloud" is one of the more accurate metaphors.
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