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This is off topic, but what are your opinions on the PBR theorem and Griffiths CH? Does the pbr rule out CH? https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2084

So in the double slit experiment, it’s the physical interaction between the electron and the measuring device that causes it to decohere and lose the interference pattern according to ch?

Is the decoherence in consistent histories different from environmental decoherence? I’m not sure if I’m reading the interpretation wrong but it seems like decoherence in ch is purely mathematical instead of a physical interaction

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/

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?

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

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...