Pith Number

pith:APRRVLHR

pith:2011:APRRVLHRW2COYZJURZH5WUODGO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Surely You Must All be Joking: An Outsider's Critique of Quantum Physics

Randall C. O'Reilly

arxiv:1109.0880 v1 · 2011-08-29 · physics.gen-ph · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{APRRVLHRW2COYZJURZH5WUODGO}

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:06.470041Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

03e31aacf1b684ec65348e4fdb51c333899ef9323f939ab6363f210e127ad00e

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.0880 · arxiv_version: 1109.0880v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.0880 · pith_short_12: APRRVLHRW2CO · pith_short_16: APRRVLHRW2COYZJU · pith_short_8: APRRVLHR

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/APRRVLHRW2COYZJURZH5WUODGO \
  | 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: 03e31aacf1b684ec65348e4fdb51c333899ef9323f939ab6363f210e127ad00e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ca940b74bdd99ddcf0e07b6f51c53d3eb980b20b73c33bde9ae8d824c69eb6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-29T18:18:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "160d694cbb666f134bbfd2269a6769257d0bde29f37325b9a7b8766699b19b3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.0880",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}