We have been trying to elicit a physically meaningful answer to the following basic question in Quantum Optics but to no avail.
To: The Editor-in-Chief of Physical Review A
We are trying to find out if your editorial policy of blocking rebuttals of the concept of quantum nonlocality is still in effect as indicated by the following quotation:
“Several important and high-impact physics journals enforce a policy that declares that papers challenging QNL (quantum nonlocality) will not be considered or sent for review. I have also personally received such communications from the American Physical Society. Papers challenging QNL receive immediate desk rejections. This type of ‘gatekeeping’ is seen not just in publishing but also in employment and the awarding of research grants. Local realists are systematically excluded. Advocacy of local realism can be a suicidal career move”. By Donald A. Graft, Rhetoric, logic, and experiment in the quantum nonlocality debate, Open Phys. 2017; 15:586–597.
Could you let us know whether your censorship is still in place?
From:
Andre Vatarescu
Canberra, Australia
email: [email protected]
To: Dr. Thomas Pattard , Chief Editor of Physical Review A
Thanks for your response which is reproduced below.*
We raised a fundamental question in our previous submission to your journal. This question which has never been addressed in the professional literature is:
"How can a single photon propagate in a straight-line inside a dielectric medium given the existence of the quantum Rayleigh scattering of single photons?"
The concept of quantum nonlocality involving two single and entangled photons requires the synchronization of their respective detections.
But this synchronization is physically impossible because of the quantum Rayleigh scattering of single photons.
Additionally, experimental results have been published in journals other than Physical Review A, results which clearly and unambiguously violate Bell-type inequalities with independent photons, thereby disproving the need for entangled photons.
We will appreciate any reference you may point out in your journal, dealing with the question mentioned above and the consequent physical aspects we have raised in this message.
From:
Andre Vatarescu, PhD
Canberra, Australia
*The only response we received contained perfunctory statements without any mention of our fundamental question.
Preston Guynn Thanks for your suggested articles but none of them deals with the photon-dipole interactions and the absorption and re-emission of another photon.
You might care to read this reference:
A. P. Vinogradov, V. Y. Shishkov, I. V. Doronin, E. S. Andrianov, A. A. Pukhov, and A. A. Lisyansky, “Quantum theory of Rayleigh scattering,” Opt. Express 29 (2), 2501-2520 (2021).
You can always learn new things! It could change your career.
You will not get any answer because I too had asked them a question which created a hue and cry. It no more is a quantum now because light as such has been shown to be an electromagnetic wave motion by proving the existence of aether. Once that is done they are responsible for converting physics a science of insanity which is going on since 1905. The Einstein's paradigm which started from 1905 is under open challenge since last twelve years which can be seen in my profile. This is just a mad house not physics research.