Pith Number

pith:3MZUSMG4

pith:2017:3MZUSMG4IWTBZ5RFHSNBTS27II

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Testing the Multiverse: Bayes, Fine-Tuning and Typicality

Luke A. Barnes

arxiv:1704.01680 v1 · 2017-04-06 · astro-ph.CO · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3MZUSMG4IWTBZ5RFHSNBTS27II}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:54.572000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db334930dc45a61cf6253c9a19cb5f42371ad331374831f7aa74781ad979c3fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.01680 · arxiv_version: 1704.01680v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.01680 · pith_short_12: 3MZUSMG4IWTB · pith_short_16: 3MZUSMG4IWTBZ5RF · pith_short_8: 3MZUSMG4

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3MZUSMG4IWTBZ5RFHSNBTS27II \
  | 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: db334930dc45a61cf6253c9a19cb5f42371ad331374831f7aa74781ad979c3fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "10c2c6a9182e5287831421689f3e996c2f19194e8ac3f2f406033d5f3848e0cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-06T01:35:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88333c480295a6d7bf700838cec7705ce04343bb029b28869198b82435138a50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.01680",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}