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If you mean move around in "orbit" around the nucleus ...

They don't. In quantum mechanics, forget everything you know from everyday experience about how objects behave, because quantum mechanics is WEIRD. One of my teachers once told me "nobody ever really understands quantum mechanics, they just get used to it." There's a fair amount of truth in that statement. Trying to picture it in your mind will only get you so far; at a certain point you just need to do the math and trust what it says even if it doesn't make any sense.

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