How can an atom exist in two places at once until observed?
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It’s not really “in two places at once”. It’s more that the idea of a thing having a definite position at all is not how the physics of the Universe actually work. Particles aren’t points, they’re smeared-out “clouds” that are just a fundamentally different type of “thing” than the solid objects you’re familiar with day to day. When they interact, they do so in fundamentally random ways – it’s not that it’s in both places, it’s that it *could be* in either, and which one it ends up actually being in is random.
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