Wave-Particle Duality Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [6]

Gribbin (1988: 100):

[Maurice de Broglie's] experiments showed clearly that during the photoelectric process an X-ray gives up the whole of its quantum of energy — there is no combination of wave and particle moving, as it were side by side.  It wasn't that the X-ray was a combination of a wave and a particle, but rather that the X-ray possessed some mixture of the properties which are associated, in the everyday world, with particles and waves separately.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the relation between quantum as wave and quantum as particle is the relation of instantiation.  A wave models a quantum as potential, whereas a particle models a quantum as instance.