Pith Number

pith:XEDRFSEM

pith:2010:XEDRFSEM6WUYGDO77VVEXYH4LN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Explaining Michelson-Morley without Special Relativity

Abhijit H. Wagh, Sanjay M. Wagh

arxiv:1009.1883 v1 · 2010-08-19 · physics.gen-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XEDRFSEM6WUYGDO77VVEXYH4LN}

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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	2026-05-18T04:41:05.728586Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b90712c88cf5a9830ddffd6a4be0fc5b5989511f9e93ebcebe0f1c0ff5e0dfff

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.1883 · arxiv_version: 1009.1883v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.1883 · pith_short_12: XEDRFSEM6WUY · pith_short_16: XEDRFSEM6WUYGDO7 · pith_short_8: XEDRFSEM

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/XEDRFSEM6WUYGDO77VVEXYH4LN \
  | 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: b90712c88cf5a9830ddffd6a4be0fc5b5989511f9e93ebcebe0f1c0ff5e0dfff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3197261666074c39d2ae2ce6ae218ac66eea8449e10a6cfb4f02a6ab48c0f58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.gen-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-19T05:55:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6a5380074d028c1458df378b7b9f3400a9d200531ae6d53d6c23c6cd504f4e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.1883",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}