Only when the observer focuses his attention on the location of an electron is when that electron appears. In short, a particle cannot manifest itself in reality.
That is to say, a particle cannot manifest itself in space-time as we know it until it is observed. So when the observer “searches” for an electron, there is a specific point in space and time in which all the possibilities of the electron collapse into a physical event.
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