Preprint of Quantum Gravity Submitted!

Yesterday was the day. Over two years since I last submitted the previous preprint, I finally found the courage to submit my manuscript for the Quantum Gravity interpretation of supramolecular to a preprint server. First I considered arXiv, but decided against it because submitting there requires a recommendation from someone who has done it already (and I don't know any such person). I also consider bioRxiv, but decided against it as well, once I realized that my article didn’t really fit with what they published.

I finally settled with ChemRxiv, despite having a slightly negative history with them. However, they had decent reason to reject my previous preprint. Firstly, the title of the paper was a rather brash “The Mathematical Principles of All Physical InteractionsBased on the Refraction of Elemental Particle s of Energy”

Their response was:

Your work is solely speculative, with no evidence-based scientific results presented, nor is it an in-depth review of recent scientific results. As such, it does not meet the requirements for posting on ChemRxiv.

Reflecting on how early on in my journey I was when I submitted the preprint, I grudgingly have to admit that they might have been at least sort of right. I didn’t present any experimental work and despite the lack of experimental results I had the audacity to claim that I could deduce just from the top of my head that there must be an elementary particle of energy.

This time the manuscript couldn’t be more different from the first. I base everything that I say on experiments and I’m very sparse in my proclamations. Even though I allude to gravitation and fundamental interactions, I stress that what I claim to be new is that steric interaction allows molecules to move in helical trajectories with minimal collision. And that these collisions are exactly the same collisions that the theory originally says: in the case of water, its dissociation into ions.

So, I submitted the manuscript on Sunday October 26^th 2025. The response says that:

Your preprint will be checked by the ChemRxiv curation team and you will be notified by email of the outcome, typically within 1-2 business days.

If everything goes well, it will be up on the ChemRxiv site latest Wednesday 29^th. However, I’m a realist and acknowledge that the title: “The Theory of Supramolecular Motion, the Primary Structure of Lignin and its Application to Adhesives” might ruffle some feathers. This might result in some objections, but this time the reasons for the original rejection no longer apply.

I don’t know what could be the reason for the rejection of the preprint. But if the person reading the manuscript feels iffy about allowing these extraordinary claims to be paraded on ChemRxiv, I’m sure they’ll come up with a reason to at least try to reject the paper. If they try to do so, at least under weak grounds, I’m going to fight back. Only if their argument for rejection is sound, I might reconsider.

And what happens if the preprint is accepted? I don’t exactly know. There is a possibility that even if you don’t make a fuzz about it, people might take notice. In this case there is a probability (high or low, I don’t know) of a snowball effect. In this case it would first spread around people who go through ChemRxiv looking for interesting new findings. Then if they get excited about the results, they begin to share the manuscript with their friends and colleagues. And at some point, it will be picked by a journalist. And then there’s a possibility that the it becomes a minor-scale global phenomenon: “A chemist claims to have found the mathematics of quantum gravity” or something like it. At this point the preprint will be sent to prominent researchers for their opinions. And it really depends on what they do, whether the preprint becomes a major-scale global phenomenon.

You see, the world is flooded with different attempts to explain quantum gravity. Just the Wikipedia page has 72 references, which is just a drop in the ocean. Searching with the search word "quantum gravity", one gets 563 000 hits. Granted, not all of these are attempting to solve it, but they still talk about it. This means that if prominent researchers in the field give my theory the cold shoulder, it might not get traction. But if enough prominent researchers say that the theory might be correct, it might get big, and rapidly.

For the sake of my sanity, I have to be a bit pessimistic. It has taken five and  a half years for me to get to this point and who knows whether it will still take much longer still. In a previous post I talked about Ignaz Semmelweis. He discovered the deadly effect of germs before germ theory. In 1847 he proposed that doctors wash their hands with chlorinated lime solutions, dropping maternal mortality from 18 % to 2 %. But because this was before the introduction of the germ theory, Semmelweis was ignored. According to Wikipedia:

Despite his research, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. 

I do have a theory, and I do have experimental evidence. But whether it’s sufficient to convince the scientific establishment, only time will tell.

In the happy state of affairs that everyone immediately accepts the theory, I can still be glad, but if there are more hurdles, at least I’ve prepared myself for them.

And as my mandatory image for the post, I present the logo of ChemRxiv™:

Maybe not the most exciting logo, but at least it follows the logic of all the other preprint services.