As expected my paper was rejected
Subject: Re: Here is my paper that was to be presented at ACS meeting next
spring.
Dear Dr Znidarsic,
I am sorry to inform you that your paper has been rejected for pblication in
the JCMNS.
Here are the comments of the referee:
I have looked at the paper "Quantization of Energy" by Frank Znidarsic as you
have asked. In this paper, Znidarsic points out various issues (such as
wave-particle duality) that were encountered during the development of quantum
mechanics, and in response has put forth a number of his thoughts which he
argues resolves the issues. In his paper, he seems to be concerned with the
notion of speed, and the notion of a transitional quantum state.
I do not recommend this paper for publication.
Quantum mechanics has been described as the most successful theory that has
been developed so far, and people use it every day for to understand particles,
light, atoms, molecules, and their interactions in every day applications to
obscure research applications.
Znidarsic seems for some reason not to be happy with the way that quantum
mechanics deals with atoms or light, or related issues. In response, he has
put forth his thoughts on various topics.
In his section on the energy of the photon, Znidarsic puts forth an argument
that seems to be based on the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor to make
an argument which he claims allows him to derive the relation between a photon
energy and frequency, where he recognizes the ratio of charge to the product of
dielectric constant and a velocity as being Planck's constant.
In modern physics, Planck's constant does not have a derivation. Instead, we
tend to think of it as a fundamental constant, with a value that can be
determined from experiment.
If Znidarsic were able to derive Planck's constant for real, he would have a
major fundamental result. However, no physicist is going to agree with
Znidarsic's argument for the connection between the energy and frequency of a
photon. A physicist wants to see a physical argument that can be understood.
Znidarsic has not given an understandable physical argument. There are words
written down, and there are also some formulas. However, the words written are
not helpful in making a physical argument. The formulas seem vaguely connected
to the words.
Based on what has been written, one wonders whether Znidarsic understands the
physical principles behind Maxwell's equations, or the Schrodinger equation.
Is Znidarsic familiar with Dirac's quantization of Maxwell's equations, which
derives the connection between the photon energy and photon frequency using
very good physical arguments. Moreover, there are a great many experiments
that have been done which seem to strongly support Dirac's theory for the
quantized electromagnetic field.
I cannot recommend for the publication of this paper. The author seems not to
understand how to motivate or present a physical argument, he does not seem to
be familiar with basic ideas that appear in classic works on the problems he
addresses, and the ideas that he does put forth don't seem to make any sense.
Best regards
--
ean-Paul Biberian
