Pith Number

pith:5AKCQCH4

pith:2016:5AKCQCH4ISC7DES4TURN2NM4XO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Conjecture Concerning Ball Lightning

P.A. Sturrock

arxiv:1609.04238 v1 · 2016-08-29 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5AKCQCH4ISC7DES4TURN2NM4XO}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:04:38.510707Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8142808fc4485f1925c9d22dd359cbba4c5dbcf49685bb756e622edb09fe710

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04238 · arxiv_version: 1609.04238v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04238 · pith_short_12: 5AKCQCH4ISC7 · pith_short_16: 5AKCQCH4ISC7DES4 · pith_short_8: 5AKCQCH4

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/5AKCQCH4ISC7DES4TURN2NM4XO \
  | 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: e8142808fc4485f1925c9d22dd359cbba4c5dbcf49685bb756e622edb09fe710

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6b3308333909431b704e2b1db771b51a6e78318c48c3fbb546d0b2a315dfb4b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-29T15:32:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acb7e4068ef902b8e8f04757ebe395bbbc72ecd5cc678947e8ba399ee85bf06f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04238",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}