Pith Number

pith:Q2CCVHBF

pith:2011:Q2CCVHBFGXWEDWR7G5THMFFQ37

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do We Need a Scientific Revolution?

Nicholas Maxwell

arxiv:1103.1974 v1 · 2011-03-10 · physics.hist-ph · physics.pop-ph · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2CCVHBFGXWEDWR7G5THMFFQ37}

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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	2026-05-18T04:27:03.256583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86842a9c2535ec41da3f37667614b0dff54445cec2f6c94d74a3817782f6efe0

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.1974 · arxiv_version: 1103.1974v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.1974 · pith_short_12: Q2CCVHBFGXWE · pith_short_16: Q2CCVHBFGXWEDWR7 · pith_short_8: Q2CCVHBF

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/Q2CCVHBFGXWEDWR7G5THMFFQ37 \
  | 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: 86842a9c2535ec41da3f37667614b0dff54445cec2f6c94d74a3817782f6efe0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9ba9d6f76b3a456ea73ee16185f4e0488192c4d6eb5c9e7734b3a03ae3595d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-10T09:43:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d20eacee392ced749af6a497b931d45119d5c82bfa5f8ee3b488de23a27ce889"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.1974",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}