Gribbin (1990: 120-1):
Bohr stressed the importance of experiments in our understanding of the quantum world. We can only probe the quantum world by doing experiments, and each experiment, in effect, asks a question of the quantum world. … In addition, we have to interfere with the atomic processes in order to observe them at all, and, said Bohr, that means that it is meaningless to ask what the atoms are doing when we are not looking at them. All we can do, as Born explained, is to calculate the probability that a particular experiment will come up with a particular result.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, each observation is a construal of experience as meaning. When no observation is being made, there is no construal of experience as meaning ('what particles are doing'). Born's probability interpretation of the wave function is a construal of experience as potential ('where particles are likely to be').
From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, each observation is a construal of experience as meaning. When no observation is being made, there is no construal of experience as meaning ('what particles are doing'). Born's probability interpretation of the wave function is a construal of experience as potential ('where particles are likely to be').
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