The Hidden Basis Of Einstein–Podolski–Rosen Effects Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Penrose (2004: 582-3):

Entanglements between particles, a notion first made explicit by Schrödinger (1935b), are what lead to the extremely puzzling but actually observed phenomena known as Einstein–Podolski–Rosen (EPR) effects. They are, however, rather subtle features of the quantum world which are quite hard to demonstrate experimentally in a convincing way. It is remarkable that we seem to have to turn to something so esoteric and hidden from view when, for many-particle systems, almost the entire ‘information’ in the wavefunction is concerned with such matters!

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, it is because the wavefunction construes potential, rather than actual, that what underlies the observed (actual) EPR effects is 'hidden from view'.