A Dissenting Nobel Laureate in Physics

Gerhard 't Hooft received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics for 

• elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.

On Wikipedia he is presented as a Quantum Mechanics QM theory dissident:

• 't Hooft has "deviating views on the physical interpretation of quantum theory".
• He believes that there could be a deterministic explanation underlying quantum mechanics.
• Using a speculative model he has argued that such a theory could avoid the usual Bell inequality arguments that would disallow such a local hidden-variable theory.
•  In 2016 he published a book length exposition of his ideas which, according to 't Hooft, has encountered mixed reactions.

Here we can listen to what how Gerhard explains his position to a general audience: 

with the following key confessions:

• QM is first of all a theory which is correct.
• I am not going to put any doubt to the fundamental correct nature of QM.
• The entire world is controlled by QM.
• But a question was not answered properly: What is reality?
• What is a particle, a field?
• Bohr framed an agreement to not ask such questions.
• I disagree, I am asking these questions.
• Many worlds and pilot waves theories cannot be right.
• QM sounds crazy, QM sounds wrong, but it works.
• There should be a real world.
• This is a dangerous thing to say.
• I you say so you place yourself outside the discussion area. 
• I am convinced we will get the truth about what QM really means, but it may take a long time...

So Gerhard says that QM is correct but at the same time that it cannot be correct. There must be something better yet to discover...

I have suggested Gerhard to take a look at RealQM and will report if I get a reaction.