The Living Theory of Quantum Gravity: Part 4 It’s ready! (sort of)

In today’s post on my ongoing polishing of my manuscript on the Theory of Quantum Gravity and Lignin Adhesives I present the ready manuscript! Well, the sort of ready manuscript.

I’ve been polishing the text to the point where I’m finally at a point where the major changes are the descriptions of experiments by my coauthors. So, this is what I’ve just done. Sent the manuscript and the supplementary information to them for their input.

I’m not assuming that they would contribute on the theory. However, if they have any input on the text, I’m more than glad to listen to their advice and try to make the manuscript better based on the input.

I already know that the manuscript could be even better, but now I need to let go of my perfectionism. Now is the time to just make sure that the manuscript fulfils all of the criteria for submission to Nature and as soon as I do that and make the last changes based on the input from my coauthors, I’ll submit the paper for peer review.

If the paper is technically sound, it won’t be rejected for minor issues about formatting or language. I’m sure the peer reviewers will find plenty to quibble about, but that’s to be expected. Some researchers even leave tiny inconsequential errors left to manuscripts that are easy to correct, so that the reviewers won’t think too closely about what is missing from the manuscript.

What I have done is that I’ve made the manuscript much more narrow than I initially thought it would be. And even then the supplementary information is 42 pages with all the appendices included. This time, I write about plenty of existing literature and include citations for everything. In my previous manuscript I had very few references and plenty of hypotheses not relating to experimental results. In this manuscript the criticism from reviewers will be about making too far-reaching assumptions, but I’ve written these criticisms into the manuscript. I’ve actually included a whole appendix in addressing “Anticipated objections”.

Nevertheless, I’m still expecting this to be a rough journey. I’m aiming to get peer-reviewed in Nature, but if I get desk rejected, I’m completely okay I have to settle for a less prestigious journal. Just as long as the paper gets peer-reviewed and accepted somewhere, it will get heard. Of course, I still want it to be published in Nature, but you can’t always get what you want.

So here is the quasi-ready main text: 

CLP-ToE main text 2025_10_14_refs-2.pdf

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And here the quasi-ready supplementary information (without text for an experiment relating to a patent-in-progress):

CLP-EGDE-ToE 2025_09_10_14_SI refs sans patent.pdf

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And to introduce the mandatory picture here is an image of two toroidosomes fusing:

Again, to understand what the image means, you need to read the manuscript. Or actually its supplementary information.