I actually like the idea of visualizing an atom as a cloud in addition to older visualization of orbiting “points”. But I kind of use cloud loosely in my mind

I actually like the idea of visualizing an atom as a cloud in addition to older visualization of orbiting “points”. But I kind of use cloud loosely in my mind and add energy field. Although neither is technically true it helps convey they idea that everything atomically is in a state of flux. So if you could stop time and glance inside a atom you may think to observe something closer to the empty space idea. However this situation is impossible and the representation is almost like a tesseract represented in 3d. Impossible to represent in a way we consciously operate. But we live in a state where things are constantly in motion and thus the existing state of an atom can be kind of though of as a cloud or maybe even better thought as an energy field with predictable states.