The electron isn't actually at one given location... it has a certain area around the nucleus (orbital area) on which it has the highest chance of being in at any given moment.
The orbital works as a shell around the nucleus, interacts with other electron orbitals of other atoms, forms molecules and stuff. And stable molecules generally tend to repel each other due to negative-negative electric interaction of the orbitals... there are exceptions, though, like the Van der Waal's bind (which causes polar molecules to bind by their polarity) as well as some other phenomena. Physical chemistry is actually pretty cool.
The page was bugged on Opera, first it upped the CPUload to 100%, then the program stopped responding for a couple dozen seconds, then it showed a page with an electron at no-so-far left and no proton visible on the right side... but nevertheless, most of the matter is just space in quantum scale.
...if you could actually define a reliable
size for basic particles. In standard model they are just points in themselves... but their quantum existence causes them to appear more like clouds of probablility, since you never know what the exact location and/or momentum of any particle at any given moment actually is...
The weirdest thing about quantum mechanics is that it
works.
