Happy Birthday, t' Hooft

Gerard 't Hooft

Quantum Gravity as a Dissipative Deterministic System
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9903084

Determinism beneath Quantum Mechanics
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0212095

The mathematical basis for deterministic quantum mechanics
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0604008

While 't Hooft's initial theory explained the uncertainty of quantum mechanics, such as the impossibility of precisely measuring both the location and momentum of a particle, it had what he considered to be a major stumbling block, because the states could end up with negative energy, which is assumed to be physically impossible, BECAUSE...

... that's the same wall that Dirac hit, and he rationalized the negative energy solutions by reinterpreting the vacuum state so that all of the negative energy states are filled, and all of the positive energy states are empty.

Dirac's theory was flawed in-spite it's success at predicting the existence of the "Positron", because it can't fully account for particles of negative energy, since it is restricted to positive energy particles, but the Quantum Field Theory representaton for this is not an accurate representation of Dirac's negative energy states.

The difference between Dirac's hole theory and quantum field theory
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0401208
Dirac's hole theory and quantum field theory are generally thought to be equivalent. In fact field theory can be derived from hole theory through the process of second quantization. However, it can be shown that problems worked in both theories yield different results.

This is the problem that keeps getting carried and compounded by orders of magnitude into every new theory, including t'Hooft's.

The negative energy solutions are the same problem that physicists have continually rationalized to become something that they are not.

KISS - Keep It Simple Stooooopid.

If you reach into the vacuum and rip out a chunk of it's energy to make a real massive particle with, then you will leave a real hole in the vacuum that will necessarily increase negative pressure and energy while driving vacuum expansion.

Don't hide from it, deal with it.