Quantum Theory Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [10]

Gribbin (1990: 197-8):

Yet two protons are held together in the nucleus by exchanging, repeatedly, pions that weigh a good fraction of the proton's own weight, and without the protons losing any mass themselves.  This is only possible because the protons are able to take advantage of the uncertainty principle.  A pion is created, crosses to another proton and disappears all in a twinkling of uncertainty allowed while the universe "isn't looking".

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, "taking advantage of the uncertainty principle" is the instantiation of quantum system probabilities.  The creation of a pion is an instantiation of that potential, and its disappearance signals a change in the system potential that can be instantiated.