The Actual Perceived Motion Of An Electron Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Penrose (2004: 631):

Accordingly, my above description of the electron’s motion as consisting of this jiggling back and forth, where a zig is continually being converted into a zag and back again, must be taken appropriately in this spirit. The actual motion is composed of a vast number of such individual processes (in fact infinitely many of them) all superposed, and we may think of the electron’s perceived motion as being some sort of ‘average’ (though strictly a quantum superposition) of these. Even this describes merely the free electron. An actual electron will be continually undergoing interactions with other particles (such as photons, the quanta of the electromagnetic field). All such interaction processes should also be included in the overall superposition.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, the actual perceived motion of an electron is an instantiation of its system of quantum potential: the superposition of all potential individual or interaction processes.