Wave-Particle Duality Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [4]

Gribbin (1989: 243):

"Resist at all costs," [Paul Davies] says in [Quantum Mechanics, 1984], "the temptation to think of an electron as pulled asunder and smeared out in space in little ripples.  The electron itself is not a wave.  Rather, the way it moves about is controlled by wave-like principles.  Physicists still regard the electron as a point-like entity, but the precise location of that point may not be well-defined."  And he goes on to describe the probability waves that determine where an electron is likely to be…

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, wave-like principles "control" an electron in the sense that 'wave-like principles" model the probabilistic potential of which each electron is an instance.