[PRE REVIEW]: Special relativity in R: the lorentz package

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Submitting author: @RobinHankin (Robin Hankin) Repository: https://github.com/RobinHankin/lorentz Version: 1.1-0 Editor: @arm61 Reviewers: @HaoZeke, @IanHawke Managing EiC: Jordan Gorzalski

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- 10.48550/ARXIV.2012.15149 is OK
- 10.48550/ARXIV.2212.07005 is OK
- 10.48550/ARXIV.1812.11589 is OK
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- 10.1119/1.4938057 may be a valid DOI for title: Visualizing relativity: the OpenRelativity project
- 10.1002/andp.19053220607 may be a valid DOI for title: Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt
- 10.1007/978-94-015-3445-1_5 may be a valid DOI for title: Electromagnetic phenomena in a system moving with any velocity smaller than that of light
- 10.1007/978-3-663-19510-8_9 may be a valid DOI for title: Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie

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[RobinHankin]

Hello, not sure if a human reads this. My suggestions for reviewers would be:

1. Markus P\"ossel poessel@hda-hd.de - influential worker in the field of relativity education
2. Ian Hawke I.Hawke@soton.ac.uk - editor for a previous JOSE paper of mine which dealt with SR

[labarba]

@arm61 — might you be able to edit this submission? As this would be your first editing assignment, you can count of me to help along the way. Let me know! (If you're ready to take it on, you can run @whedon assign me as editor right here!)

[labarba]

We still do not have an assigned handling editor, but I wonder if we can entice Gabriele Bozzola, @Sbozzolo, to help us as a reviewer? (By complete coincidence, he just followed me on Fosstodon, ha ha! I followed back ☺️)

[Sbozzolo]

Hi @labarba, unfortunately R falls outside of my expertise. So, I think I wouldn't be able to provide an insightful review, but I will be available to answer any question on the science that you or other reviewers might have.

[labarba]

Thanks for popping in here, @Sbozzolo ! Appreciate it. It looked like a lucky strike when I saw you are a numerical relativist. Do you know anyone who could help us with this review?

[Sbozzolo]

Thanks for popping in here, @Sbozzolo ! Appreciate it. It looked like a lucky strike when I saw you are a numerical relativist. Do you know anyone who could help us with this review?

I'd be happy to help, but language is a barrier here. And, in general, I suspect it will be tough to find someone in the relativity and gravitational physics community, since we use primarily Python, Julia, C/C++, and Fortran. From a cursory look at this package, my impression is that it does not implement very sophisticated relativistic calculations, so you probably don't need a domain expert to follow what is going on (the paper itself claims that the package is meant to be accessible to undergraduate students).

One person that I see in the list of volunteers for JOSE is HaoZeke, who lists R as one of their preferred languages and molecular dynamics simulations as one of their topics (which suggests a physics background).

From the JOSS list, I can see AlexAxthelm, which lists R and "physics, education" as their interests. This is the only partial match I found in the first 750 lines of the document, which gives you an idea of how niche is this combination of programming language and topic.

[arm61]

Happy to handle the editing of this, but on annual leave until the 3rd so can pick it up then.

[arm61]

@whedon assign me as editor

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[arm61]

Hey, @HaoZeke! Would you be interested in helping out and reviewing this work?

[HaoZeke]

Hi @arm61, happy to help out, but I'm a little backlogged, so I might get to this after the 15th at the earliest. If that's alright, I took a preliminary peek at the code-base and I will be able to handle the technical (R) review as well as the physics (at the level hinted at in the paper).

[arm61]

Fantastic thanks @HaoZeke! I will hunt a bit today for a second reviewer.

[arm61]

@whedon assign @HaoZeke as reviewer

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OK, @HaoZeke is now a reviewer

[arm61]

Still working on finding a second reviewer. @RobinHankin do you know of others working in physics with experience in R?

[RobinHankin]

Hello Andrew, I have to say that the intersection between relativistic physics and R is almost nonexistent [a situation I hope to improve with this submission!]. You might ask Zurab Silagadze, @.> who I have been discussing the work with. also Rachel E. Scherr < @.> and Andrew Harris @.***> who work in physics education and astronomy in R respectively.

Best wishes

Robin

-- Robin K. S. Hankin Associate Professor, computational statistics

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 9:54 PM Andrew McCluskey @.***> wrote:

Still working on finding a second reviewer. @RobinHankin https://github.com/RobinHankin do you know of others working in physics with experience in R?

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[arm61]

Just am update that I am still working on finding a second reviewer!

[RobinHankin]

thanks for this, I appreciate it!

with best wishes

Robin

Robin K. S. Hankin Associate Professor, computational statistics

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Just am update that I am still working on finding a second reviewer!

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[arm61]

I am pleased to say that we have a second reviewer!

[arm61]

@whedon add @IanHawke as reviewer

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OK, @IanHawke is now a reviewer

[arm61]

@whedon start review

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OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/jose-reviews/issues/196.