An atom is a fuzzy cloud of possible paths for electrons around a simmering throb of other events with smaller radii.
Someone saying it this may seem a self-inflated whir of concepts around a relatively shallow core. But it’s a way to understand ourselves, if that’s what we want.
In low light a moving person may appear as multiple ghosts moving along several planes at once. The legs swinging like pendulums criss-cross and create diamonds where they superimpose. The three way pivoting of elbow, shoulder and torso create a picture like petals of a flower.
The cloud of movements we make parallels the cloud of notions that steam around us. Our actions ghost and overlap, so that what people perceive of us is the overlaps our ideas create that differentiate us from the next atom of a person.