Gribbin (1989: 232):
Which is more real, the particle or the wave? It depends on what question you ask of it. And no matter how skilful a physicist the questioner may be, there is never any absolute certainty about the answer that will come back.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the particle is a construal of experience as instance, whereas the wave is a construal of experience as potential. Which is construed as more real depends on the meaning of 'real'. If 'real' means actual(ised), then the instance is more real than the potential. The wave is not detected; it is the statistical distribution of particles — as instances of the probabilistic potential — that is detected.
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