Dear editor, Phys Rev D. The referee report is totally wrong and I can and will refute everything in it trivially, and I can and will produce MORE THAN ONE logically independent trivial refutation of everything in it! Here is the referee report you sent me, back at you, with my comments/refutations after the "--" marks. Please try to produce better referee reports than this one. >From prd@aps.org >DN7213 >Charge quantization, the topology of the universe, and the hopeful abolition o >Smith,Warren D./ > > Dear Dr. Smith: > The above manuscript has been reviewed by one of our > referees. Comments from the report are enclosed. > We regret that in view of these comments we cannot > accept the paper for publication in the Physical Review. > Yours sincerely, > Rajamani Narayanan Assistant to the Editor Physical Review D ================================================================== Referee report I believe that the article is flawed and should not be published. The main point of the article is an explanation of electric charge quantization through a compact topology of the Universe and a trapped background magnetic field. The author assumes that the spatial, fixed time slice, manifold of the Universe is a compact space, for example a three-dimensional torus. Background magnetic field trapped in one direction is supposed to lead to charge quantization. The charge is supposed to be quantized in the units of the total flux of the magnetic field through any surface normal to the background field. A simple objection to this idea is that toroidal geometry is incompatible with a net magnetic flux. --False. A magnetic flux going "round the torus" is entirely --possible. For example, let the torus be the cube -- 0