An unorthodox view on quantum mechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03179v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 15:12:14 GMT
• Title: An unorthodox view on quantum mechanics
• Authors: Gerard 't Hooft
• Abstract summary: Quantum mechanics is a description of the sub-microscopic world that is profoundly different from what is often asserted. Author's opinion on the interpretation of quantum mechanics is further elucidated.
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• Abstract: The author's opinion on the interpretation of quantum mechanics is further elucidated. Not only may quantum mechanics be a description of the sub-microscopic world that is profoundly different from what is often asserted, particularly concerning 'what is really going on', but questions such as these may well be essential for finding new ways of constructing models beyond what is now called the Standard Model of the sub-atomic particles.

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