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Looking at life with Gerardus 't Hooft
Jan 2002
Professor Gerardus 't Hooft was born in 1946 in Den Helder, the Netherlands. He completed a PhD in Physics in 1972 at the University of Utrecht, where he has been a Professor of Physics since 1977.
't Hooft and his colleague Professor Martinus J.G. Veltman received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1999, for their work on the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.
't Hooft has been a member of the Dutch Academy of Sciences since 1982, and has received a number of other awards, including the 1979 Dannie Heineman Prize from the American Physical Society and the 1982 Wolf Prize for his work on renormalising gauge theories.
The article that follows is an extract from 't Hooft's conversations with Rachel Thomas of the Plus team, in his own words.
"I remember, from as long as I have memories, that I have been interested in natural phenomena, in nature, and also in abstract thinking and mathematics. I always wanted to understand and to research the forces of nature, the mysteries of nature which attracted me enormously.
Gerardus 't Hooft at the conference [Photo and copyright Anna N. Zytkow]
Today, we are discovering that nature is very mathematical,
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The Emergence of Quantum Mechanics from Fast Vacuum Fluctuations, arXiv:2010.02019 (quant-ph).
(2) On finding the precise evolution laws of black holes as derived from Standard Model equations, combined with what we know about Gravitation and General Relativity. String or superstring theories should not play a role as long as we do not reach the domain of length scales relevant to strings. There are things running astray long before strings begin to be relevant. For instance, people, including string theorists, noted that black holes lose information in a mysterious way. If handled along the lines of the text books. But we don't know what the correct text book lines are. I don't see why black holes should lose information at all, but i do see good reasons for not believing the text books here.