Pith Number

pith:ZNZ7S4TR

pith:2024:ZNZ7S4TROUGK6INZ3ZKVMNSIHD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Could Ball Lightning Be Magnetic Monopoles?

Karl D. Stephan (Texas State University)

arxiv:2408.10289 v1 · 2024-08-19 · hep-ph · physics.geo-ph

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\pithnumber{ZNZ7S4TROUGK6INZ3ZKVMNSIHD}

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Ball Lightning as a profound manifestation of the Dark Matter physics

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T08:57:09.265839Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb73f97271750caf21b9de5556364838fce3f829a8cfc350bc0ff59e1b997cf2

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.10289 · arxiv_version: 2408.10289v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.10289 · pith_short_12: ZNZ7S4TROUGK · pith_short_16: ZNZ7S4TROUGK6INZ · pith_short_8: ZNZ7S4TR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZNZ7S4TROUGK6INZ3ZKVMNSIHD \
  | 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: cb73f97271750caf21b9de5556364838fce3f829a8cfc350bc0ff59e1b997cf2

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.geo-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-19T11:29:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aacb73e7ff9bb1bf65f964947aaf218d3c6f53898d63cca8ce32e0706df605cc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.10289",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}