Pith Number

pith:WVRIEUBZ

pith:2014:WVRIEUBZBMS7XJHTZ7YYWQ6X5B

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Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics

Robert Brady, Ross Anderson

arxiv:1401.4356 v1 · 2014-01-16 · quant-ph · physics.flu-dyn

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WVRIEUBZBMS7XJHTZ7YYWQ6X5B}

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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	2026-05-18T03:01:55.225239Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5628250390b25fba4f3cff18b43d7e842fa90f6d265ec778626185c02e7d35a

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.4356 · arxiv_version: 1401.4356v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.4356 · pith_short_12: WVRIEUBZBMS7 · pith_short_16: WVRIEUBZBMS7XJHT · pith_short_8: WVRIEUBZ

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/WVRIEUBZBMS7XJHTZ7YYWQ6X5B \
  | 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: b5628250390b25fba4f3cff18b43d7e842fa90f6d265ec778626185c02e7d35a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad6681669983781ba212588faa177e7fbc358a17cafa89c978ebb22ef8d42b87",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.flu-dyn"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-16T05:04:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b497735905a1d901b6df60499bb26a4ac4c217ba1867c758687837c2b8f4c1e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.4356",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}