From studying the atom, it is clear that electrons exist in discrete energy levels. An electron has either one energy level, or another. It does not posses intermediate energy levels.
This hints at some sort of harmonic resonance.
Niels Bohr suggested in his time that the electron may itself be resonating, and that the resonance of the electron would have to be in direct proportion to the size of the nucleus.
However, that would allow the electron to be anywhere at any time as long as it was at the correct distance from the nucleus. That turned out to be wrong.
Molecular bindings suggest that electrons exist in certain regions relative to each other. If there are more than one electrons in a shell, they tend to stay away from each other. They are not all over the place. They are much more likely to be found in one place rather than another place.
From this, quantum physics arrived at a probabilistic model of the electron which worked so well that molecular bindings could be computed and predicted.
The conclusion was that electrons exist as probabilistic entities.
However, there is another interpretation that would yield the same result, namely the bouncing electron.
The nucleus of an atom would in this model serve as a bouncing ball with specific harmonics. That would explain the discrete energy levels.
The mutual repulsion of the electrons would explain why they occupy separate regions.
The fact that all of this happens semi-random and at a tremendous speed explains why probability theory works so well.
In short, all that's suggested in the Velcro universe is that rather than treating the electron as a semi-mysterious entity with strange probabilistic attributes, we should think of the electron as a real particle trapped by the electric field of the nucleus, bouncing furiously off of it, always at some harmonic frequency relative to the size of the nucleus.
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| Nucleus with ten bouncing electrons = Neon |
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