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Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement
So just to clarify is this saying that the system has a single position/path prior to measurement that we just don’t know about? Like in bohemian mechanics Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/consistent-histories-particle-positions-prior-to-measurement.1085187/- nickv2423
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Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement
Ok I think I understand. So is this path the system may have taken physically real or is it just a probability function like in regular QM?- nickv2423
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Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement
yea I’m having a tough time trying to comprehend what the formalism is saying. Are the coarse grained descriptions supposed to be the path they actually took prior to measurement or just a probability distribution- nickv2423
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Graduate Consistent histories -- particle positions prior to measurement
I’m having a tough time understanding the CH interpretation. Only one of the histories happens when a measurement is made, but it seems to me it is saying that even prior to measurement a particle (ie electron) has a position and trajectory that we just don’t know about unlike standard QM. Is...- nickv2423
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