Pith Number

pith:4MYVD43P

pith:2025:4MYVD43P7NQLRHPYEEOV5Z57JU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

That Dot on the Screen: also, what about Born? and other objections to wavefunction physics

W. David Wick

arxiv:2504.17808 v1 · 2025-04-22 · physics.gen-ph

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\pithnumber{4MYVD43P7NQLRHPYEEOV5Z57JU}

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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.

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On blocking Dispersion of Matter by Energy conservation

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:53:56.328730Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e33151f36ffb60b89df8211d5ee7bf4d1fa71db96179a4f3c29066248db0de71

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.17808 · arxiv_version: 2504.17808v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.17808 · pith_short_12: 4MYVD43P7NQL · pith_short_16: 4MYVD43P7NQLRHPY · pith_short_8: 4MYVD43P

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4MYVD43P7NQLRHPYEEOV5Z57JU \
  | 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: e33151f36ffb60b89df8211d5ee7bf4d1fa71db96179a4f3c29066248db0de71

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bcf342b7f588704261857dd1a83a744b3ad2f093b0e58ed5cd4ea58b5b2f793c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-22T17:13:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15db1e3d2cb5198a065bae18bdb46c6226e838eafa2781f68e02cdc1d1496fc9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.17808",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}