The Sneaky Theory of Quantum Gravity Accepted (with Minor Revision)… I Think

Yesterday I received an email that I had not expected. I received a message stating that my manuscript had been accepted with minor revision. Except the response was so short that I have a feeling that I have misunderstood it. Below is the e-mail, slightly redacted to remove any mention of the specific journal or the name of the editor.

The response:

Decision: minor revision

 Deadline: 22 Dec 2025

 Dear Dr Lintinen,

 Your manuscript, "The Theory of Supramolecular Motion, the Primary Structure of Lignin and its Application in Adhesives", has now been assessed.

 1."We noticed that you have included a Data Availability Statement in the manuscript stating: “All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. Reprints and permissions information is available at

Kindly follow the below steps for the same:

Log in to the SNAPP system using your registered credentials.

Navigate to the 'Declaration' section.

From the list of declaration sections, select the 'Data Availability' section.

Click 'Yes' to indicate data availability"

 We recommend submitting all revisions within the mentioned deadline.

 If you need more time, please contact us and include your submission ID.

 Kind regards,

Assistant Editor

 When your revision is ready, the original submitting author, Kalle Lintinen, must upload a revised manuscript and a point-by-point response. To view any reviewer reports, editor feedback, and the instructions for submitting your revision, please visit your submission details page:

If one reads the response in the simplest manner, it appears that the manuscript was accepted with no real change. The only request is a cosmetic one relating to how data availability is declared. So, I made the cosmetic change and resubmitted the manuscript. With this change the manuscript should be accepted, if I have understood the reviewer correctly.

However, I have a nagging feeling that I have misunderstood the editor. The thought: “What if the editor just wants me to make this minor change before they send the manuscript to reviewers?” is still at the back of my head. However, if I read the response carefully, this doesn’t seem likely at all. After all, the title of the mail from the journal was “Decision on your manuscript” and the first thing written in the message is “Decision: minor revision”.  So, I have to believe that it’s almost sure that the final revision is just cosmetics and that there is no way that the paper could be rejected anymore.

I should learn very soon whether the manuscript is fully accepted. If it just required the small cosmetic change and that everything is ready now, it should only take some days for the article to be accessible to the wider audience.

In this case, I might need to prepare some sort of a press release, because the paper should get a lot of buzz. It’s completely different claiming to have found something radical, if the findings haven’t passed peer-review, compared to when peer-reviewers accept the findings.

I might be wrong, but this paper might make me at least well-known in my own field, or possibly even world-famous, if the theory gets accepted and is applied widely.