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Abstract: When investigating theories at the tiniest conceivable scales in nature,almost all researchers today revert to the quantum language, accepting theverdict from the Copenhagen doctrine that the only way to describe what isgoing on will always involve states in Hilbert space, controlled by operatorequations. Returning to classical, that is, non quantum mechanical,descriptions will be forever impossible, unless one accepts some extremelycontrived theoretical constructions that may or may not reproduce the quantummechanical phenomena observed in experiments.
Dissatisfied, this author investigated how one can look at thingsdifferently. This book is an overview of older material, but also contains manynew observations and calculations. Quantum mechanics is looked upon as a tool,not as a theory. Examples are displayed of models that are classical inessence, but can be analysed by the use of quantum techniques, and we arguethat even the Standard Model, together with gravitational interactions, mightbe viewed as a quantum mechanical approach to analyse a system that could beclassical at its core. We explain how such thoughts can conceivably bereconciled with Bell's theorem, and how the usual objections voiced against thenotion of `superdeterminism' can be overcome, at least in principle. Ourproposal would eradicate the collapse problem and the measurement problem. Eventhe existence of an 'arrow of time' can perhaps be explained in a more elegantway than usual.
Discussions added in v3: the role of the gravitational force, a mathematicalphysics definition of free will, and an unconventional view on the arrow oftime, amongst others.