The Notion Of Wave Packet Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [3]

Gribbin (1988: 105):

But the only way to create a wave packet which is localised in space is to allow waves of different wavelengths to interfere with one another.  And the smaller the wave packet the more variety of different wavelengths is needed to keep it tightly confined.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the way to construe "a wave packet that is localised in space" is to clearly distinguish between the potential (an ensemble of "superposed" waves of probability) and the instance (actual particle frequencies) as different perspectives on the same phenomenon.