[Coda]

Espy, don't think of it as actual reality. Rather, think of it as a probability distribution. Until you take a measurement of the system -- thereby escalating one of those probabilities to 100% (you just looked at it, so it's definitely happened) and reducing the rest to 0% (you didn't see them, so they didn't happen) -- then it would be fallacious to treat the system as if it were in any fixed state. Rather, you have to treat it as a superposition of possible states.

This is, in fact, how electrons work. They're not some tiny little blob of matter spinning in circles around the nucleus of an atom. Instead, they're wave impulses. (Though at that scale, E=mc^2 says there's no difference!) And you can't measure WHERE an electron is, but rather you can measure where they CAN be, with associated probabilities.