Friday 24 November 2017

Complementary Quantum Uncertainties Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Gribbin (1988: 106):
Measuring position very accurately corresponds to squeezing the wave packet, and the smaller the wave packet the bigger the spread in wavelength, and therefore in momentum.  Measuring momentum very accurately corresponds to selecting out a very precise wavelength, or velocity, for the electron, and that means that the wave train stretches out over a greater distance.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, measuring the position or momentum of a quantum is construing experience as an instance of meaning.  The complementary uncertainties of quantum position and momentum are the complementary probabilities in the quantification of the potential.

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