'Quantum Fluctuations In The Gravitational Field' Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Penrose (2004: 803):

Sometimes the idea of ‘quantum fluctuations in the gravitational field’ might be appealed to, according to which the very structure of spacetime would become ‘foamlike’, rather than resembling a smooth manifold (Fig. 29.6) at the ‘Planck scale’ of some 10⁻³⁵m.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, the notion of 'quantum fluctuations in the gravitational field' confuses the instantiation of quantum potential (fluctuations) with the spatiotemporal dimensions of the instances. That is, it confuses mediated processes with their circumstances.