When I think about this, I think about how we may fabricate stuff on the macro and micro, or even quantum scale. And then I start trying to understand how energy flows through space and how our suns reach out and touch things that we can't even see. And how light creates very strange interference patterns when shown through slits.
I've watched many physicists (real ones, not crazy ones) from many university level talks discuss these things and I still haven't figured out how to articulate myself or describe it in words that make any sense. I haven't fully bought into the idea of quantum mechanics, seeing it more a symptom of our inability to accurately describe the universe at a small scale, so we settle for guessing games and statistical probabilities. We don't actually know what the photons are traveling through, just that some scatter one way and some scatter the other way when that flow is impeded or restricted. And that we can actually change the speed at which those photons flow using lasers. Dramatically. And this is just light, not even 'electrical charge' or 'electrons'. And magnetism.
We do now know there aren't jut a few 'particles' or energy levels.. there's like an infinite graduation of such from particle accelerators smashing them together and watching the fuzz explode out, and synchrotrons, and we've detected more naturally occurring particles than we initially thought there would be or realized using experiments designed to detect stuff at very high energy levels. So we have a very incomplete picture of the universe. Even the immediate space around us.
What I learned in grade school about electrons isn't true at all, and what I do know doesn't invalidate Planck's ideas about energy levels and clouds, but I think that comes more from a misinterpretation of his models. Less, any in-accuracy. He was deliberately fuzzy about his thoughts. Yet there is still yet more at play here. To say 'energy just disappears here, and re-appears there and there at undeterminable only guessable points' and creates mass is a bit rough. And basic. And anyone serious about understanding how an electrical charge works, is selling themselves short to accept things at complete face value.
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