Posted by spooky on Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:59am.
In the modern model (quantum mechanics), the electron does not follow a path. It exists within a "probability cloud", the shape of which depends upon the energy and angular momentumn of the electron. It is impossible to tell where it is at a particular time.
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