Quantum Theory Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [8]

Gribbin (1990: 196):

The uncertainty principle applies to the complementary properties of time and energy as well as to position/momentum.  The less uncertainty there is about the energy involved in an event at the particle level, the more uncertainty there is about the time of the event, and vice versa.  An electron does not exist in isolation, because it can borrow energy from the uncertainty relation, for a short enough period of time, and use it to create a photon.  The snag is, almost as soon as the photon is created it has to be reabsorbed by the electron, before the world at large "notices" that energy conservation has been violated.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, uncertainty is an interpersonal assessment of meaning in terms of probability.  Probability is a feature of the construal of experience as potential meaning.  The creation of a photon in particle interactions is an instantiation of the system of quantum potential.