Pith Number

pith:6E34VAJQ

pith:2014:6E34VAJQPMFAJRBYU7JPABKXJF

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Can the quantum vacuum be used as a reaction medium to generate thrust?

Trevor Lafleur

arxiv:1411.5359 v1 · 2014-11-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6E34VAJQPMFAJRBYU7JPABKXJF}

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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	2026-05-18T02:33:24.819861Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f137ca81307b0a04c438a7d2f005574969114717543f9b47d54ec4879c255f55

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.5359 · arxiv_version: 1411.5359v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.5359 · pith_short_12: 6E34VAJQPMFA · pith_short_16: 6E34VAJQPMFAJRBY · pith_short_8: 6E34VAJQ

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/6E34VAJQPMFAJRBYU7JPABKXJF \
  | 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: f137ca81307b0a04c438a7d2f005574969114717543f9b47d54ec4879c255f55

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19a05b7637cbe10ddb34b29a0eb9bd711fc4fc9e1bd9b9a7e4f509bf24cced38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-19T15:44:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34329a4aacb7da6e2f5d03d181de38895602acab3bfd6478716a26098ffa9ad4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.5359",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}