Pith Number

pith:KXPEOJLW

pith:2009:KXPEOJLWM24XWUUIREBDPP4MBX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Time as an Illusion

Paul S. Wesson

arxiv:0905.0119 v1 · 2009-05-01 · physics.gen-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KXPEOJLWM24XWUUIREBDPP4MBX}

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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	2026-05-18T02:13:48.491026Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55de47257666b97b5288890237bf8c0dcc747c7e2d6ac5aefe1f9c75583a54ae

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.0119 · arxiv_version: 0905.0119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.0119 · pith_short_12: KXPEOJLWM24X · pith_short_16: KXPEOJLWM24XWUUI · pith_short_8: KXPEOJLW

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/KXPEOJLWM24XWUUIREBDPP4MBX \
  | 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: 55de47257666b97b5288890237bf8c0dcc747c7e2d6ac5aefe1f9c75583a54ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1eba6538c3ed84ff155927105a087d6d4a353634f458f414a661e4ed6fc37412",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-01T16:50:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c3c39e8cf026f3e2f140a7ae30e092e0ce3ae195ea0f4d65b02f8543aef9d92"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.0119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}