15.2. Ответы рецензентов
Reviewer 1
What I do not really see is the fundamentally new aspect. It seems that any finite approximation to the standard continuum theory of gravity, quantum mechanics or quantum field theory more or less gives what the author proposes. But then, any such finite approximation is implemented (though not at a group theoretical level) when making numerical calculations of quantum mechanical (or other) problems on a computer. The criticisms of the mainstream continuum theories are, for my taste, too commonplace and unspecific, or have already been responded to within the usual mainstream theories. Some of the papers cited to support the author's criticism of the mainstream theories are known to present misguided views that have been clarified elsewhere in the literature. It is also not really clear how the author's approach would get around the critisized issues.
In conclusion, I think the book project does not meet the quality expectations of FTPH. I would not like to endorse it, even though FTPH is open to more speculative approaches and non-mainstream philosophical viewpoints.
I think that the proposal is kind of esoteric, ignoring 80 years of successful quantum theory. Now, there are problems with QED and QFT in general and they are of various kinds, position operator for photons is one such problem, infinities another one, and the author is only focussing on those. But the first question one would have to address is, when one wants to change the world, how does the world in which we actually live fit into that. The author ignores that or hides the discussion somewhere, where it is hard to find. That’s a second issue, the book is all words, hardly formulas, almost like a book of philosophy. I cannot endorse that proposal.
В рецензиях все как обычно: ничего не понимают и понимать не хотят, но раз у меня не QFT, то сразу посылают подальше. Что здесь особенно странно: эта секция в Springer называется FTPH – fundamental theories of physics, и в правилах написано, что надо предлагать что-то фундаментально новое, а не стандартное. Т.е., как бы рецензент должен понимать, что может быть что-то необычное. Но, как обычно, для них правила не писаны и если они не понимают, то сразу отвергают. Например, одна из главных целей моей работы – объяснить, что стандартная непрерывная математика – частный вырожденный случай конечной математики, а не наоборот. Но менталитет этого тупицы такой: он сразу решает, что дискретное это приближение к непрерывному и пишет отрицательный отзыв. Мой ответ на рецензии такой: