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But, no atom looks like that!

That lil dot is spinning amazingly fast, that spin has real world consequences.

You image is frozen into an instant to help us illustrate its structure.*

A perfect example of the Map v. Territory Problem – – then we start arguing that the map is the reality when our minds can’t bend itself around the reality itself.

* Well, at least until we can snap a picture of an atom at absolute zero, although seems to me that structure would collapse rather that becoming a frozen solar system.