The Incompleteness Of Quantum Theory Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

 Penrose (2004: 1011):

Einstein’s general relativity stands out, in my opinion, as that century’s greatest single achievement. Quantum theory (and QFT) might well be regarded by most physicists as an even greater achievement. From my own particular perspective on the matter, I do not feel able to share that view. While it is undoubtedly the case that quantum theory has explained incomparably more than general relativity, over a vastly greater range of different phenomena, I do not regard the theory as having yet achieved the necessary coherence as a theory. The problem, of course, is the measurement paradox. In my opinion, quantum theory is incomplete. When it is completed — which I would anticipate happening some time in the 21st century — it will, no doubt, represent an even greater achievement than Einstein’s general relativity.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, Quantum theory has already achieved 'the necessary coherence as a theory', since the measurement paradox is made coherent by understanding the collapse of the wave function as the probabilistic instantiation of one of a range of potential construals of experience as meaning.