The Quantum Interpretation Of Feynman Graphs Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Penrose (2004: 631):

There is a word of warning that I must give, however, about how we are to interpret Feyman-graph diagrams. We can legitimately think of the process that is being depicted as a spacetime description of what is going on; but at the quantum level of things, we must take the view that, even for a single particle, there are a great many such processes going on simultaneously. Each individual one of these processes is to be viewed as taking part in some enormous quantum superposition of vast numbers of different processes. The actual quantum state of the system consists of the entire superposition. An individual Feynman graph represents merely one component of it.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, the entire superposition of simultaneous processes is potential, not actual, and an individual Feynman graph represents one instantiation, not component, of that potential.