Pith Number

pith:HNEZDQMM

pith:2014:HNEZDQMMIDDVONIMAJFPW5VWYE

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Against Dogma: On Superluminal Propagation in Classical Electromagnetism

James Owen Weatherall

arxiv:1409.1164 v2 · 2014-09-01 · physics.hist-ph · physics.optics

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HNEZDQMMIDDVONIMAJFPW5VWYE}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T02:35:46.979801Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b4991c18c40c757350c024afb76b6c1083acb5522a94342f6c09221ff664525

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.1164 · arxiv_version: 1409.1164v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.1164 · pith_short_12: HNEZDQMMIDDV · pith_short_16: HNEZDQMMIDDVONIM · pith_short_8: HNEZDQMM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HNEZDQMMIDDVONIMAJFPW5VWYE \
  | 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: 3b4991c18c40c757350c024afb76b6c1083acb5522a94342f6c09221ff664525

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47a3566abcb32422f9f6d9dff36ec0f4b7b5343fbee22c8448c71c11a8126682",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-01T00:54:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "253e9e23848bef24179dc7d48d0edc99c9ee32f8c797260a5af493cbb30af57b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.1164",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}