I haven't read the paper yet (too much to do). But I wonder why it's posted in the "General Physics (physics.gen-ph)" category rather than under "General Relati

I haven't read the paper yet (too much to do). But I wonder why it's posted in the "General Physics (physics.gen-ph)" category rather than under "General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)" where most papers with similar topics are traditionally submitted. The physics.gen-ph category on arXiv is a little odd, a little uncomfortable, and hard to describe. Here are a couple of quotes from discusions of arXiv moderation commenting on it: "There is one middle option between acceptance and rejection: Dubious papers can be shunted to a category called “general physics,” or “gen-ph.” At best, gen-ph is a home for papers that don’t fit neatly into any other category; at worst, it is a crackpot dumping ground. Either way, it allows moderators to dodge the drama that comes with out-and-out rejections. For many authors, though, being relegated to gen-ph is just as galling as being rejected outright: As one such researcher told Reyes-Galindo, having his paper reclassified to gen-ph felt like a deliberate attempt to diminish the paper’s impact." -- http://oren365.tech/news/What-Counts-as-Science http://oren365.tech/news/What-Counts-as-Science? (via Google cache) "Personally, I have never had a problem with the arXiv moderation. I had a paper reclassified from gen-ph to gr-qc once by a well-meaning moderator, which is how I learned that gen-ph is the dump for borderline crackpottery. (How would I have known? I don’t read gen-ph. I was just assuming someone reads it.)" -- http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-holy-grail-of-crackpot-filtering.html http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-holy-grail-of-c... EDIT: I don't mean this as direct criticism of this paper, which might potentially be fantastic and just fit better in the general category for one reason or another than in gr-qc. (Or, some moderator might have been too harsh: entirely possible!) But I wanted to share some of the unspoken background information that many physicists would think about when seeing this link.