What makes an electron “move” around an atom? Like what force actually propels it? What causes the motion?

Question

So an electron ‘moves’ around the nucleus of an atom. But what causes this motion? Is it just eternal inertia since the atoms founding?

And I don’t mean when elections change levels, I mean the actual motion of the revolution around the nucleus of the atom.

Thanks!

In: Physics

Answer 1

The electron is not a little marble flying in a circle around some bigger marbles in the nucleus. It’s not like a solid particle at all and it doesn’t move like one.

The electron actually exists in a sort of quasi-probability cloud of all the places it COULD be