The Double-Slit Experiment Of Quantum Theory Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [12]

Gribbin (1990: 173):

What's worse, as soon as we stop looking at the electron, or whatever we are looking at, it immediately splits up into a new array of ghost particles, each pursuing their own path of probabilities through the quantum world.  Nothing is real unless we look at it, and it ceases to be real as soon as we stop looking.

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(Note that here, again, the author, like many physicists, in saying what happens when we are not looking, unwittingly violates the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics.  As Feynman cautioned, this is to produce an error.)

From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, when we look, we construe the experience as meaning, and when we stop looking, we stop construing the experience as meaning.  There are no ghost particles pursuing their own paths, and 'real' itself is a construal of experience as meaning.