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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Since the majority of the posters here echo my sentiments exactly, I'm going to go on a selfish tangent;
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?
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Nope, it does not travel at the speed of light. It disappears from the one orbit, and reappears in the other without travelling between orbits.
Probably the most readable source for this (read: The only one I was smart enough to understand) is Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Everything" which btw is an EXCELLENT book about all sorts of science stuff.