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Electrons do not orbit.

For the simple case of an electron in a hydrogen atom, energy-stable wavefunctions are products of three separate functions: exponential function, a laguerre polynomial function and a spherical harmonic.

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Presumably the GP meant orbitals.

It's an important distinction. A lot of people would like to think electrons orbit the nucleus like planets orbit a star.

Yes, but someone thinking in terms of the Bohr model would not ask is the orbits are (described by) spherical harmonics.

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