The Double-Slit Experiment Of Quantum Theory Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [18]

Gribbin (1989: 230):

This is very strange.  Whenever we try to detect an electron, it responds like a particle.  But when we are not looking at it, it behaves as a wave.  When we look to see which hole it goes through, it goes through only one hole and ignores the existence of the other one.  But when we don't monitor its passage, it is somehow "aware" of both holes at once and acts as if it had passed through them both.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, only particles (instances of potential) are detected, and each particle goes through only one of the holes, not both.  Waves do not pass through the apparatus, because waves are construals of quantum system potential only.

As Feynman pointed out, 'to conclude that it goes either through one hole or the other when you are not looking is to produce an error'.