Pith Number

pith:TVBIQNGE

pith:2006:TVBIQNGEE72OJXR2YQDIDKUI2Z

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String theory, the crisis in particle physics and the ascent of metaphoric arguments

Bert Schroer

arxiv:physics/0603112 v5 · 2006-03-14 · physics.soc-ph · hep-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TVBIQNGEE72OJXR2YQDIDKUI2Z}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:07.178570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d428834c427f4e4de3ac40681aa88d67a67edb78ee40f2246f021fd1bbfea98

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0603112 · arxiv_version: physics/0603112v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0603112 · pith_short_12: TVBIQNGEE72O · pith_short_16: TVBIQNGEE72OJXR2 · pith_short_8: TVBIQNGE

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/TVBIQNGEE72OJXR2YQDIDKUI2Z \
  | 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: 9d428834c427f4e4de3ac40681aa88d67a67edb78ee40f2246f021fd1bbfea98

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "049341d0b0fb24012324db4189fc5af8b4e2ed7c226d488fc22d48b148db224c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-03-14T19:29:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d4e09674bee434c15482bb41e71b48eb578a513cfc102e7820189a7863ecfba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0603112",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}