Pith Number

pith:IBGW5MWV

pith:2010:IBGW5MWVBHEKROM2PQCWOSICRK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Engineering the Zero-Point Field and Polarizable Vacuum For Interstellar Flight

H. E. Puthoff, S. R. Little

arxiv:1012.5264 v1 · 2010-12-23 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IBGW5MWVBHEKROM2PQCWOSICRK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:30:05.146548Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

404d6eb2d509c8a8b99a7c056749028a916c68a16d8b53c86a5c67978bdcf9dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.5264 · arxiv_version: 1012.5264v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.5264 · pith_short_12: IBGW5MWVBHEK · pith_short_16: IBGW5MWVBHEKROM2 · pith_short_8: IBGW5MWV

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/IBGW5MWVBHEKROM2PQCWOSICRK \
  | 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: 404d6eb2d509c8a8b99a7c056749028a916c68a16d8b53c86a5c67978bdcf9dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3386acc7a2b5a468f6bbe4b6b1b5122f1f18ba362bc7a87a50182e16ee40329e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-23T17:54:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7779d6aafa95b20f742733afaf0168562da2cdf40927424df3758b411cc9c3d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.5264",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}