The Spread In Wave Packet Wavelength Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Gribbin (1988: 105):

The spread in wavelength depends only on the size of the wave packet, and has nothing to do with quantum effects — it happens in exactly the same way for waves in the everyday world, ripples on a pond and the like.  But the spread in wavelength does have implications in terms of quantum physics, because we now know that a spread in wavelength must correspond to a spread of momentum over an equivalent amount.  At the same time, even though the wave packet may be very small, it always has some physical spread in space itself.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the spread in the wavelength of the wave packet corresponds to the probabilistic spread of the momentum potential and the locomotion potential of the quantum system.  The actual frequencies of particle momenta and locomotions are the instances of that potential.