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Imagine a (purely hypothetical) situation where someone proposes a scheme that exploits non-classical, nonlocal interference effects to transfer information between Alice and Bob. Apart from the accuracy and plausibility of the quantum mechanical part of the paper, would it be necessary for the author to address conflicts with relativity?
In other words, how important (in peer-reviewed contexts) is the role of considerations such as "Ah, but then Alice could be traveling at a relativistic velocity, enabling her to receive a message from Bob's future, and she could right away send a signal back into Bob's past that would somehow prevent Bob from later sending his message to Alice in the first (?!) place!" Would the author have to address such matters? Would a typical referee request her to do so (assuming that the referees couldn't find any other flaw)?
In other words, how important (in peer-reviewed contexts) is the role of considerations such as "Ah, but then Alice could be traveling at a relativistic velocity, enabling her to receive a message from Bob's future, and she could right away send a signal back into Bob's past that would somehow prevent Bob from later sending his message to Alice in the first (?!) place!" Would the author have to address such matters? Would a typical referee request her to do so (assuming that the referees couldn't find any other flaw)?