Quantum Theory Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [6]

Gribbin (1990: 174):

Persist in asking for a physical picture of what is going on, and you'll find all physical pictures dissolving into a world of ghosts, where particles only seem to be real when we are looking at them, and where even a property such as momentum or position is only an artefact of the observation.

Blogger Comment:

From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, quantum particles, and such properties as momentum and position, are only construed as meanings when we are looking at them.  The "dissolving" is simply the cessation of construal, and to speak of "a world of ghosts" is 'to produce an error', as Feynman made clear; see original relevant post here.