Modeling quantum scattering of fundamental particles by classical, deterministic processes

We point out that results obtained by M. Ribaric and L. Sustersic, hep-th/0403084, and by M. Blasone, P. Jizba and H. Kleinert, quant-ph/0409021, suggest that the path-integral formalism is the key to a derivation of quantum physics from classical, deterministic physics in the four-dimensional space-time. These results and the t Hooft conjecture, hep-th/0104219, suggest to consider a relativistic, non-material medium, an ether, as a base for non-local hidden-variable models of the physical universe.