According to the video you can see below, the right way to think about it is as a standing wave. What does that mean? The video shows a very interesting demonstrator that shows how that works.

THE spinning electron of Uhlenbeck and l Goudsmit has brilliantly filled up a serious gap in atomic physics, but, while we cannot withhold our admiration from its successes, it is only fair to ...

In 1933, the two theorists Piotr Kapitza and Paul Dirac proved that an electron beam is even diffracted from a standing light wave (due to the particles' properties) and that interference effects ...

Imagine standing by a lake and throwing a stone ... optically by reversing the previous process and converting the electron wave back into light. By precisely moving the tip over the sample ...