SMRTR Science & EngineeringApr 8, 2025Scientific American

Breakthrough Prize Winner Gerard ’t Hooft Says Quantum Mechanics Is ‘Nonsense’

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Gerard 't Hooft, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, has been awarded a $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize for his career contributions to physics. His work on non-Abelian gauge theories laid the foundation for the Standard Model of particle physics, and he has made significant advances in understanding quarks, magnetic monopoles, and black holes.

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