Pith Number

pith:KWK35H5N

pith:2025:KWK35H5NIFMZWBNOM7ID3AT5JJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Presentist Fragmentalism and Quantum Mechanics

Paul Merriam

arxiv:2508.06006 v1 · 2025-08-08 · physics.gen-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KWK35H5NIFMZWBNOM7ID3AT5JJ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:50:47.250947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5595be9fad41599b05ae67d03d827d4a40bc8e672fe234417b66b09c8fd08d6b

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.06006 · arxiv_version: 2508.06006v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.06006 · pith_short_12: KWK35H5NIFMZ · pith_short_16: KWK35H5NIFMZWBNO · pith_short_8: KWK35H5N

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/KWK35H5NIFMZWBNOM7ID3AT5JJ \
  | 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: 5595be9fad41599b05ae67d03d827d4a40bc8e672fe234417b66b09c8fd08d6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f910f8fbe6c3a3e556e21e3ed63470e4f3ddf6adfecbb152938acbc11fd49f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-08T04:25:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa2a9077d0d95bffca82f28f76f57db4d3a96fedfa0ba5a3319ce8f55b2ce921"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.06006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}