Pith Number

pith:ZM7PGOB5

pith:2026:ZM7PGOB5I3PDOCW7HXNAYFRYGS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Physical Coherence and Time's Emergence

Eugene Y. S. Chua

arxiv:2605.24970 v1 · 2026-05-24 · physics.hist-ph · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZM7PGOB5I3PDOCW7HXNAYFRYGS}

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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	2026-05-26T01:04:08.707004Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb3ef3383d46de370adf3dda0c16383489ab2f44233c5dd6f0a705bd678081c1

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.24970 · arxiv_version: 2605.24970v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.24970 · pith_short_12: ZM7PGOB5I3PD · pith_short_16: ZM7PGOB5I3PDOCW7 · pith_short_8: ZM7PGOB5

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/ZM7PGOB5I3PDOCW7HXNAYFRYGS \
  | 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: cb3ef3383d46de370adf3dda0c16383489ab2f44233c5dd6f0a705bd678081c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f28c14013e68d784ede63a48f41b9871334c563a8462556e45e2f8c3b93ca2f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-24T09:53:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2f557e5c1c42eda2e568b9dfc93f322b834d9943f433bf3d57131f40558a8e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.24970",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}