Pith Number

pith:NR4FMLRF

pith:2017:NR4FMLRFZJJ4ZLOBZ4YPWYFN2J

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Review of Jean Bricmont's book "Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics"

Michael K.-H. Kiessling

arxiv:1709.05442 v1 · 2017-09-16 · physics.hist-ph · physics.ed-ph · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NR4FMLRFZJJ4ZLOBZ4YPWYFN2J}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:52:34.241127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c78562e25ca53ccadc1cf30fb60add267d540f4e1767750e4be055f91fc4ae5

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05442 · arxiv_version: 1709.05442v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05442 · pith_short_12: NR4FMLRFZJJ4 · pith_short_16: NR4FMLRFZJJ4ZLOB · pith_short_8: NR4FMLRF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NR4FMLRFZJJ4ZLOBZ4YPWYFN2J \
  | 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: 6c78562e25ca53ccadc1cf30fb60add267d540f4e1767750e4be055f91fc4ae5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6756e39313f5607eb5288f0fe4b1ed02be82013860ffc877d885a68e5a2d4c76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-16T01:22:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02179da2234bd7cdc6db70721efee4b270a753dd23f4c1e0575b36d7ad37270d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05442",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}