Gribbin (1988: 285):
And resonance — a phenomenon purely of the quantum behaviour of atoms — is essential in understanding the basic structures of the molecules of life. All of the processes of life operating inside the cell can be understood as the interaction of complex chemical substances in obedience to the laws of quantum physics.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, this:
- misconstrues the laws of physics as modulation (obligation) instead of modalisation (probability); and
- proposes that meaning of the first-order (the interaction of complex chemical substances) obeys meaning of the second-order (the laws of quantum physics), which is equivalent to proposing that a landscape obeys a map of it.
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