Pith Number

pith:232FROO5

pith:2024:232FROO5VL3IGWCHMIBCXN4E4H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is Ball Lightning a Signal of Magnetic Monopoles?

John P. Ralston

arxiv:2411.00240 v1 · 2024-10-31 · hep-ph

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Ball Lightning as a profound manifestation of the Dark Matter physics

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:29:39.526858Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6f458b9ddaaf683584762022bb784e1fbb3169ec1c85ba5c22430718056ffe3

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.00240 · arxiv_version: 2411.00240v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.00240 · pith_short_12: 232FROO5VL3I · pith_short_16: 232FROO5VL3IGWCH · pith_short_8: 232FROO5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/232FROO5VL3IGWCHMIBCXN4E4H \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d6f458b9ddaaf683584762022bb784e1fbb3169ec1c85ba5c22430718056ffe3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ba39de7312f25e7971c2932f4f9cac232ca34a240b10be2afc7245868ace103",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-10-31T22:27:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54183b4fbeb320f88b9656bd75d43b73e59d382664251c5a7d8a29d3e4781175"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.00240",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}