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  • I watched it just yesterday and even though the maths gets over my head sometimes (especially here when she demonstrates the analytical solution with the Schrödinger equation thing), she’s really good at explaining these concepts.

    The only thing I didn’t quite understand, and maybe I just didn’t pay attention in the video: If electrons aren’t particles but waves, what does it mean for an atom/molecule to have x electrons? Are “two electrons” just a more intense wave than “one electron”? And this electron wave… wouldn’t it constantly change its position due to it being a wave (stuff needs to move to create waves, right?) or is that what physicists are talking about when they say the probability of the electron to be at location y?