Penrose (2004: 512):
The difficulty is made more manifest if we imagine that our particles are charged particles, such as electrons. For if the emission of a single electron at the source could result in a pair of electrons arriving at the screen, even if only very occasionally, then we should have a violation of the law of conservation of charge. The same would apply to any other conserved particle ‘quantum number’, such as baryon conservation, for example, if we were to use neutrons. Such non-conservation behaviour would be in gross contradiction with an enormous amount of experimental evidence. Yet, electrons and neutrons do exhibit the kind of self-interference that results in a two-slit-experiment behaviour as I have just described!
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, this scenario confuses quantum potential with actual instances of that potential. In the two-slit experiment, one electron is emitted and one electron arrives at the screen. The 'self-interference' is not between two instances (particles) of the one potential (wave), but between two potentials (waves) of the one instance (particle).
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