Basically, you don't want to think of the electron as a little blue dot whizzing around the nucleus or nuclei, going faster or slower, or being in an
orbit. The electron is spread out over a volume- it's more like peanut butter spread out over a slice of toast- thicker in some areas, thinner in
others. You can't ask yourself, how fast are the peanuts travelling? Are they going faster over some parts of the toast rather than others?
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