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In the sense that the word "particle" at that scale now means "quantum probability distribution". BLOB THINGS.
(I still visualise atoms as planetary electrons around a nucleus sun - the electrons possibly in shells - until I catch myself and try to visualise s and p shells. Too much out-of-date popular science as a child.)