The Double-Slit Experiment Of Quantum Theory Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [17]

Gribbin (1989: 230):

It looks as if each electron goes through both slits.  This is crazy.  But we can devise an additional set of detectors that notes which slit each electron goes through, and repeat our experiment to see if that is indeed what happens.  When we do this, we do not find that our detectors at the two holes report the passage of an electron (or half an electron).  Instead, sometimes the electron goes through one slit, and sometimes through the other.  So what happens now when we send thousands of electrons through the apparatus, one after the other?  Once again, a pattern builds up the detector screen.  But it is not a diffraction pattern!  It is simply a combination of the two bright patches we get when on or the other of the holes is open, with no evidence of interference.

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As previously explained, from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, each particular electron, as an instance of quantum potential, only ever goes through one slit or the other, not both.

When the experimental set-up is changed so that electrons are detected at the point of going through one slit or the other, the potential meaning to be construed of experience is also changed, and the instances of that potential reflect that change in the different statistical distribution of impacts recorded on the detector screen.