Please see The Electron
Reference: INERTIA: A Summary
You cannot locate the whole snake at a point, but you can locate it with total certainty in a patch of space. If you assume that the snake must be located at a point then you will come up with something like the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.
This is the case with an electron. An electron is much smaller than an atom, but it cannot be located at a point because it hardly has any mass. An electron is spread out in space like a snake.
There is no uncertainty if the location of an electron is recognized as a “patch of space” rather than a point. Then there would be no “probability function,” which makes Quantum Mechanics math very complicated.
The physical location can be approximated as a point only to the degree there is mass. To the degree there is less mass and more wavelength, the location cannot be approximated as a point.
Maybe the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle gives the minimum size of a “point” location.
The current view of Electron as a “point particle” seems to be inconsistent.
Electron has a wavelength and it is definitely spread over a patch of space. The location of electron cannot be approximated as a point because it hardly has any mass.
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