When investigating theories at the tiniest conceivable scal… - Gerard 't Hooft

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When investigating theories at the tiniest conceivable scales in nature, almost all researchers today revert to the quantum language, accepting the verdict from the Copenhagen doctrine that the only way to describe what is going on will always involve states in HIlbert space, controlled by operator equations.

Gerard 't Hooft

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About Gerard 't Hooft

Gerardus 't Hooft (born 5 July 1946) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions".

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Native Name: Gerardus (Gerard) 't Hooft

Alternative Names: Gerardus 't Hooft • G.W. 't Hooft • Hooft • Gerard ’t Hooft • G. Hooft • Gerardus • Gerard

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Deterministic underlying theories for QM are possible. They are still difficult to construct, but simple "toy models" are possible. These models are not good enough to replace today's existing quantum theories.

On your way towards becoming a bad theoretician, take your own immature theory, stop checking it for mistakes, don't listen to colleagues who do spot weaknesses, and start admiring your own infallible intelligence.

Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn't have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.

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