Pith Number

pith:ZO5OJI5L

pith:2012:ZO5OJI5LRS4MMVSGAHGSIUKZYD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Examples and Comments Related to Relativity Controversies

Timothy H. Boyer

arxiv:1206.5322 v1 · 2012-06-22 · physics.class-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZO5OJI5LRS4MMVSGAHGSIUKZYD}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:39:52.898494Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cbbae4a3ab8cb8c6564601cd245159c0e7c87f8f1698e79445034484a89d56e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.5322 · arxiv_version: 1206.5322v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.5322 · pith_short_12: ZO5OJI5LRS4M · pith_short_16: ZO5OJI5LRS4MMVSG · pith_short_8: ZO5OJI5L

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/ZO5OJI5LRS4MMVSGAHGSIUKZYD \
  | 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: cbbae4a3ab8cb8c6564601cd245159c0e7c87f8f1698e79445034484a89d56e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41063c0a7d1ca4ed6e4038149ca8dd6626085e286724e33148655d12f641e0ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.class-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-22T21:22:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79e2fa7b482cb55ece4d92d06bf4bb7e9b5254cf5bdd785a07040ec61f54fa55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.5322",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}