The Laws Of Physics Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [1]

Gribbin (1989: 344):

We owe our existence to a very tiny imbalance in the laws of physics, a preference for matter over antimatter in the decay of X bosons that amounts to no more than one extra quark for every billion antiquarks — an imbalance equivalent to one ten millionth of one percent of all the matter that existed in the form of X and anti-X pairs in the GUT [Grand Unified Theory] era [of the early universe].

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, this confuses first-order meanings (physical data) with second-order meanings (the laws of physics).  This is equivalent to mistaking a map (laws) for the landscape (data) it models, and is a widespread epistemological error in the field of physics.