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Modern physics began with two revolutions at the turn of the 20th century. The first revolution, which radically changed our concepts of space and time, was single handedly accomplished by Einstein with his special and general theories of relativity.
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Electron orbits are actually somewhat fuzzy and are more accurately described by wave functions; see Sect. 10.3.
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More precisely, the probability distribution is given by the square of the wave function.
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Perlov, D., Vilenkin, A. (2017). The Quantum World. In: Cosmology for the Curious. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57040-2_10
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