Since the majority of the posters here echo my sentiments exactly, I'm going to go on a selfish tangent;
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It is more reasonable to believe that as an electron transfers from a lower to a higher orbit around its atom, it will travel between the two orbits in a linear fashion, much as you would do if you drove your car down the block. That's a very reasonable belief. It's also flat out wrong. The electron simultaneously disappears from the first orbit and appears in the second orbit, without crossing any points in between.
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Do you have any resources/references on this? This and the following paragraph allude to quantum mechanics, but I've not heard it applied to electron configuration. Is it not just that the particle changes orbits at the speed of light (or a speed we cannot measure)? Or is it truly simultaneous?