Pith Number

pith:TVKQZYL6

pith:2000:TVKQZYL66E52AKLXGOZP2P3WK5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Emergence of the Planck Scale

B.G. Sidharth

arxiv:physics/0002035 v1 · 2000-02-19 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TVKQZYL66E52AKLXGOZP2P3WK5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:38:11.657717Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d550ce17ef13ba0297733b2fd3f76577b4b6a12750a839402ea70f85dba9bf3

Aliases

arxiv: physics/0002035 · arxiv_version: physics/0002035v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/0002035 · pith_short_12: TVKQZYL66E52 · pith_short_16: TVKQZYL66E52AKLX · pith_short_8: TVKQZYL6

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/TVKQZYL66E52AKLXGOZP2P3WK5 \
  | 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: 9d550ce17ef13ba0297733b2fd3f76577b4b6a12750a839402ea70f85dba9bf3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92634f3b300b14f495f575af7556c0969ac4ea46878cf3298d11653e740370a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-02-19T00:54:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95361daf20c809fbd1538d4cf72bb00286648f4a8c23f32c3b907418087cdac7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/0002035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}