Pith Number

pith:WLQNEPWZ

pith:2015:WLQNEPWZWYENRQWJVBLK6SQLWW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Skeptical Notes on a Physics of Passage

Nick Huggett

arxiv:1508.06599 v1 · 2015-08-25 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WLQNEPWZWYENRQWJVBLK6SQLWW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:42.586880Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2e0d23ed9b608d8c2c9a856af4a0bb5bcf54d2ba40bdf6671827edaf2364fe3

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.06599 · arxiv_version: 1508.06599v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.06599 · pith_short_12: WLQNEPWZWYEN · pith_short_16: WLQNEPWZWYENRQWJ · pith_short_8: WLQNEPWZ

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/WLQNEPWZWYENRQWJVBLK6SQLWW \
  | 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: b2e0d23ed9b608d8c2c9a856af4a0bb5bcf54d2ba40bdf6671827edaf2364fe3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "86aeb2c1c704ca116339f90e9d14f3e5b305778dcf46bd695b2fef65bd2644c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-25T18:29:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "573dd866c60b3d505ff05644580db9a4aee5b9b2709ca7323fffbf434ff8b560"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.06599",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}