Sorry for the stupid question guys. im not the best in science.
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You know how when you hold two magnets against one another, they push each other apart as if there was some kind of gelatinous ‘thing’ between them, even though there is nothing?
Think of what we call ‘electrons’ as being made up of the same kind of nothing-stuff. They’re not actually ‘things’ and as such they don’t ‘revolve’ or ‘fly’ or even ‘are’ in any specific place. Electron is what we call a place where there is a charge that can be in all sorts of places around a proton core (another not-thing).
Since these places can change, we use words like ‘revolve’ and ‘spin’ to describe different properties of theirs. But those are metaphors and have actually very little to do with the ‘balls flying around other balls’ models that we teach children.
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