Pith Number

pith:Y6AOWAYV

pith:2011:Y6AOWAYVRIUVV3O6B5PEQXMJWH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Anthropic Principle in the Multiverse: Addressing Provability and Tautology

Douglas F. Watson

arxiv:1103.6044 v1 · 2011-03-30 · physics.pop-ph · astro-ph.CO

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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	2026-05-18T04:25:25.310991Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c780eb03158a295aedde0f5e485d89b1e7fc450e7bf58c7f11b96909382d4c8b

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.6044 · arxiv_version: 1103.6044v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.6044 · pith_short_12: Y6AOWAYVRIUV · pith_short_16: Y6AOWAYVRIUVV3O6 · pith_short_8: Y6AOWAYV

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/Y6AOWAYVRIUVV3O6B5PEQXMJWH \
  | 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: c780eb03158a295aedde0f5e485d89b1e7fc450e7bf58c7f11b96909382d4c8b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0ec99bed54b15f72184fa90436fe5592a8b002c198cf98d24cdc12c98049965",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-30T20:35:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2109e6e0e74cec632d5506742883b1f9789b84392c870f6f26132215f7c9ddd5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.6044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}