Pith Number

pith:JWTDUQ7W

pith:2018:JWTDUQ7WZMWQZONPVWKZEVP2RY

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Physics Needs Philosophy. Philosophy Needs Physics

Carlo Rovelli

arxiv:1805.10602 v1 · 2018-05-27 · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JWTDUQ7WZMWQZONPVWKZEVP2RY}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

The Multiverse: a Philosophical Introduction

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:14:13.477152Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4da63a43f6cb2d0cb9afad959255fa8e2cb2a72729bbc3ce94731ab6483a9c73

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.10602 · arxiv_version: 1805.10602v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.10602 · pith_short_12: JWTDUQ7WZMWQ · pith_short_16: JWTDUQ7WZMWQZONP · pith_short_8: JWTDUQ7W

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/JWTDUQ7WZMWQZONPVWKZEVP2RY \
  | 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: 4da63a43f6cb2d0cb9afad959255fa8e2cb2a72729bbc3ce94731ab6483a9c73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2eccb92e919eaab794a72d7f732bfbf7dfb4f29922981b6375ab28446b39abba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-27T10:13:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12381a7016483bfbd77b8214563b3ba3934336b68464c65d1306f5174b3b2c51"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.10602",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}