Sorry about the last one. This one is a little simpler and I've worked it through. More of a rhetorical thought, unless you'd like to take a stab at a solution.
Quantum mechanics is really a weird universe unto itself. things do not act as you would hope, or expect. Objects disappear into nothing, and from nothing reappear. Happens all the time! In fact, this is quite normal.
So let's look at an electron as it rotates around the nucleus of an atom. It hauls ass on it's little orbital path, at sub light speeds. In fact, it spins around the nucleus so fast, it is hard to determine precisely where it is at at any given moment.
Now let's bring in some state of the art equipment, which will determine exactly where this little bugger is at any given moment. And it works! We've somehow been able to determine the exact location of the electron! But wait, when we do this, measure it's precise location, we lose other informtion. we have no idea what it's angular momentum is! There is a principle in quantum mechanics that pretty much goes like this...
"The more closely you determine the electron's position, the less you know about it's momentum (and visa versa)".
This is because an electron behaves like both a particle AND a wave.
In it's normal state, without being watched too closely, the electron would appear more like a cloud. and in this cloud, the electron is in multiple positions simultaneously.
This is not theoritical, there is a lot of hard science to back up this claim.
Think about it. An object in multiple positions, all at the same time!
....It blows my mind away to think of such things!
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