Avi Loeb

But it's not of interest.

That was the response.

That was the second paper that the same editor blocked without sending it to review.

The first one was about the anti-tale.

We tried to provide a physical interpretation, explaining the anti-tale.

Is it possible with known physics to explain it?

We tried to do that.

Again, it's not of interest.

to the astrophysics community.

That's what she said.

How did you explain the antitail, though?

I don't think... We explained in that paper it was in terms of fragments of ice, not dust particles.

So there are big chunks of ice that cannot be easily pushed by sunlight backwards the way you find in comets.

We tried to explain to them either big particles of...

of dust or ice that are chunks that cannot be pushed easily by the sun either solar wind or the solar light but at any event again it was blocked by the same editor and the third time was this report about an interstellar meteor the editor wrote it's not of interest to the astrophysics community at that point i realized wait this journal i submitted in the past

almost all of the papers that I submit in the past were sent to referees.

And I have no issue if a referee thinks for these scientific reasons that it shouldn't be discussed, but the editor blocking the referring process is a very unusual situation.

In three months, three papers about interstellar objects.

And I basically wrote an essay about it, complaining about it.

Then two months later, the editor sends