Hawking's Wave Function Of The Universe Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Gribbin (1989: 378):

Stephen Hawking, of the University of Cambridge, has developed an approach based on the concept of defining a quantum mechanical wave function that describes the entire Universe, and dealing with this, as one could any other wave function in quantum physics, in terms of path integrals.  And he says there may be no boundary to the Universe, even at the moment of creation.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the path integral approach — Feynman's taking into account of every possible trajectory — is the construing of experience as quantum system potential.  In applying it to the entire Universe, Hawking is modelling the entire Universe as potential.