Pith Number

pith:AXMWQGE2

pith:2016:AXMWQGE2HBWXXYIV37EJZGX3XW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Einstein contra Aristotle: the sound from the heavens

J. C. S. Neves

arxiv:1604.08869 v2 · 2016-04-29 · physics.hist-ph · physics.pop-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AXMWQGE2HBWXXYIV37EJZGX3XW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:57.969947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

05d968189a386d7be115dfc89c9afbbdb27534d149c3631e38bb32b5952a13cc

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.08869 · arxiv_version: 1604.08869v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.08869 · pith_short_12: AXMWQGE2HBWX · pith_short_16: AXMWQGE2HBWXXYIV · pith_short_8: AXMWQGE2

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/AXMWQGE2HBWXXYIV37EJZGX3XW \
  | 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: 05d968189a386d7be115dfc89c9afbbdb27534d149c3631e38bb32b5952a13cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ac2616f0c65ed9692291b7bedf90317d7950a25c8f7335e592294340b78df88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-29T19:43:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a33132323a671534a06ca115ad74dcf49897b9e9bf71cde179d0f0141c41992f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.08869",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}