I’m a bit of an “Orber” or Aten-believer who also thinks Science is far more important and that Orb concepts can mislead and worry people.

I think the original concept of an atom was mostly like an Orb. Thinkers at the time didn’t actually know there was nothing inside it (spoiler: it did have stuff in it), and whatever could have been in it could have ended up consisting of loads of different categories of smaller objects that were very complicated to describe in a satisfactory way.

An Orb can have wires encoding related data on the internal surface: https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-theorems.html