[Robert]

You're right. By small-scale and large-scale I am comparing quantum physics concepts to classical physics concepts. Imagine playing with a baseball. It's predictable, it's motions are understood, its understandable, etc. If you start shrinking this baseball to sub-atomic dimensions it looses its thingness and gets "smeared" in respect to position, momentum, predictability. However, a shrinking baseball is not really a good example since you cannot have a shrunken baseball at sub-atomic dimensions. What would it be composed of? Instead, the shrunken baseball would be represented as a subatomic particle which, by definition, isn't really a thing in the classical sense. I think people tend to think of electrons and other particles as things in the sense that a baseball is a thing. But an electron is fundamentally different in its thingness. Why the difference?