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We can bump the electron to a higher energy level, by shooting photons at it that have

just the right energy.

But if we try to look at it any closer than that ... to find out 'where' it is, what 'size'

it is, what 'direction' it's going, or how 'fast', first of all, there's no way to do that

without shooting photons at it which changes all of those things, but even worse

than that, the electron doesn't even look like a little pellet to us, it looks like a wave!

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