Quantum Uncertainty Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [6]

Gribbin (1989: 378):

If there really was a moment of creation, then the concept of quantum uncertainty, one of the strangest and most fundamental features of quantum physics, seems to provide the best hope of explaining how the Universe came into being.  In that case, there may indeed have been a moment of creation marking the boundary of the Universe at the beginning of time.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, quantum uncertainty is the construal of experience as quantum probability, which is the quantification of physical systems as potential.

As interpersonal meaning, probability is an assessment of a proposition as 'either yes or no', that is 'maybe yes, maybe no' (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 177, 691).

Construing the coming into being of the Universe is construing a first instantiation of physical potential.