Pith Number

pith:RXQRSK65

pith:2014:RXQRSK6532H5HE4BL5XDO33NWF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Evolving Block Universe and the Meshing Together of Times

George F R Ellis

arxiv:1407.7243 v1 · 2014-07-27 · gr-qc · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RXQRSK6532H5HE4BL5XDO33NWF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:29.549283Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8de1192bddde8fd393815f6e376f6db17b25911bc12ee9fa7873d47e51b37c91

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.7243 · arxiv_version: 1407.7243v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.7243 · pith_short_12: RXQRSK6532H5 · pith_short_16: RXQRSK6532H5HE4B · pith_short_8: RXQRSK65

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/RXQRSK6532H5HE4BL5XDO33NWF \
  | 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: 8de1192bddde8fd393815f6e376f6db17b25911bc12ee9fa7873d47e51b37c91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51a159c727c351d4fd4dd6242868efe6fe5e5093ff3ff6808b26914b47d67e9c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-27T15:02:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67b040de895e7821e3d4c43f95e53d468011b235a76f8b18f59a3962544075ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.7243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}