Pith Number

pith:WFH7V7VN

pith:2017:WFH7V7VNQ5DI2YZLYM5PGCHNFT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad

Sean M. Carroll

arxiv:1702.00850 v1 · 2017-02-02 · hep-th · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WFH7V7VNQ5DI2YZLYM5PGCHNFT}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Bell Correlations and Selection Bias

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:51:29.586549Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b14ffafead87468d632bc33af308ed2cc0bb31b4596c60fff569919f494f34f3

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00850 · arxiv_version: 1702.00850v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00850 · pith_short_12: WFH7V7VNQ5DI · pith_short_16: WFH7V7VNQ5DI2YZL · pith_short_8: WFH7V7VN

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/WFH7V7VNQ5DI2YZLYM5PGCHNFT \
  | 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: b14ffafead87468d632bc33af308ed2cc0bb31b4596c60fff569919f494f34f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b793a90505b374fa422b9d78dba0877349b0714f8b5331e2db0adda72f77397c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-02T22:22:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4b5ba12854a264c918c34426e0866a4224c8b18ee8efbf1443bd731c858932d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00850",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}