303 | AMA | February 2025

829.044 - 851.875 Sean Carroll

That is to say, they don't have perfectly precise, well-defined energies. That's part of the fun of quantum mechanics. in exactly the same way that an electron itself, which if we imagine that it is exactly in a perfectly definite state of energy, it will then not be in a perfectly definite state of position. We think of the electron as being in a superposition of many different positions.