Pith Number

pith:7KBF55CT

pith:2012:7KBF55CT3EEXUX6V36SKOCCFGV

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Has Science Established that the Cosmos is Physically Comprehensible?

Nicholas Maxwell

arxiv:1210.1747 v1 · 2012-10-05 · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7KBF55CT3EEXUX6V36SKOCCFGV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:43:53.435541Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa825ef453d9097a5fd5dfa4a70845357805855a25cb6c542e65b5648fbc8188

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.1747 · arxiv_version: 1210.1747v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.1747 · pith_short_12: 7KBF55CT3EEX · pith_short_16: 7KBF55CT3EEXUX6V · pith_short_8: 7KBF55CT

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/7KBF55CT3EEXUX6V36SKOCCFGV \
  | 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: fa825ef453d9097a5fd5dfa4a70845357805855a25cb6c542e65b5648fbc8188

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce4fb8fdd3175e8e80c264ceffbee62a220c1c0440ae77b727e48ed3f3178165",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-05T13:14:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3daac5a5b68110150fdb2f536bf6835e94f3b4f19bc222c260e3278929f78df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.1747",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}