there’s a notion nowadays that there is only one electron in all of the Universe

and that that one electron seems to be so many because it can move back and forth and sideways and skitterscotch through Time

and so the probability clouds of electron shells surrounding the nuclei of atoms intrinsically demand that Electron Dude coexist with a certain number of itself in order to impart the specific properties of the element to its tiny corner of existence

which sounds terrifyingly complicated and fragile but hey it works just fine and actually in one sense simplifies things

since with only one Electron Dude the property of that one electron is utterly reliable and invariant

and beats spit & baling wire six ways to&from Sunday as an attractive binding arbitration

and best of all it is poetic

and that children is why we call our home

the UniVERSE