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Consider the simplified example a electron uniformly distributed around a single circular orbit. If we say that it has a speed of 90°/sec, then its position at
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Consider the simplified example a electron uniformly distributed around a single circular orbit. If we say that it has a speed of 90°/sec, then its position at t=0s is uniformly distributed, and its position at t=1s is uniformly distributed, but those positions are correlated such that, conditional on it being at 12 o'clock at t=0s, it's most likely to be at 3 o'clock at t=1s. If its speed is instead 180°/sec, then (conditioned on 12 o'clock), it would most likely be at 6 o'clock one second later.
But it's not more likely to appear between 12 o'clock and whereever, because that's only in the subset of cases where we assume it started at 12 o'clock; if we instead assume it started at 5 o'clock, it'll be moving to 8 or 11 instead. The starting positions are uniformly distibuted, so the later positions are also uniformly distibuted.