Pith Number

pith:TVH7LWCZ

pith:2018:TVH7LWCZS2YA5KHDVDQKQXAJPI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Beyond Falsifiability: Normal Science in a Multiverse

Sean M. Carroll

arxiv:1801.05016 v1 · 2018-01-15 · physics.hist-ph · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TVH7LWCZS2YA5KHDVDQKQXAJPI}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:25:50.300608Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d4ff5d85996b00ea8e3a8e0a85c097a32b48c573586f7014a2c8b69b2a7c99f

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.05016 · arxiv_version: 1801.05016v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.05016 · pith_short_12: TVH7LWCZS2YA · pith_short_16: TVH7LWCZS2YA5KHD · pith_short_8: TVH7LWCZ

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/TVH7LWCZS2YA5KHDVDQKQXAJPI \
  | 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: 9d4ff5d85996b00ea8e3a8e0a85c097a32b48c573586f7014a2c8b69b2a7c99f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c91cec787cd34e9663f194674eae754455f66ee36ebc4b2de871134693c57f9c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-15T21:13:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65cfe2e728534504473659069a2636e1737ed9c1acb54ae4738ac0bf926d4df0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.05016",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}