Written in the Stars: How your (pens and) papers decide the fate of the arXiverse

2025/03/31 by Joanne Tan, Tan, Joanne · 7 voices
Decision Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #International Science and Diplomacy #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #Scientific Computing and Data Management #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.EP #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM #astro-ph.SR #physics.pop-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.23957

openalex publication_date 2025/03/31 · arxiv published 2025/03/31 · arxiv updated 2025/03/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We all love the ecstasy that comes with submitting papers to journals or arXiv. Some have described it as yeeting their back-breaking products of labor into the void, wishing they could never deal with them ever again. The very act of yeeting papers onto arXiv contributes to the expansion of the arXiverse; however, we have yet to quantify our contribution to the cause. In this work, I investigate the expansion of the arXiverse using the arXiv astro-ph submission data from 1992 to date. I coin the term "the arXiverse constant", a₀, to quantify the rate of expansion of the arXiverse. I find that astro-ph as a whole has a positive a₀, but this does not always hold true for the six subcategories of astro-ph. I then investigate the temporal changes in a₀ for the astro-ph subcategories and astro-ph as a whole, from which I infer the fate of the arXiverse.

Discussions

• Okay I think my fave this year was the one trying to measure the expansion rate of arXiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23957 Honorable mention to pastamarkers though [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]
• #arXiv #April1st Written in the Stars: How your (pens and) papers decide the fate of the arXiverse arxiv.org/abs/2503.23957 The very act of yeeting papers onto arXiv contributes to the expansion of th [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]
• #arXiv #April1st Written in the Stars: How your (pens and) papers decide the fate of the arXiverse https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23957 The very act of yeeting papers onto arXiv contributes to the expansi [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
• Written in the Stars: How your (pens and) papers decide the fate of the arXiverse (Tan) the equivalent of Hubble's constant in the arXiverse is positive, but it will slow to a big crunch.... arxiv.org [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]
• Joanne Tan: Written in the Stars: How your (pens and) papers decide the fate of the arXiverse https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23957 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23957 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.23957 [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]
• 4 / Pour finir : "Written in the Stars: How your (pens and) papers decide the fate of the arXiverse". Dans une parodie parfaite des débats sur la tension H0 (différentes expériences mesurent différent [mastodon, 0 points, 0 comments]
• # arXiv # April1st Written in the Stars: How your (pens and) papers decide the fate of the arXiverse https:// arxiv.org/abs/2503.23957 The very act of yeeting papers onto arXiv contributes to the expa [mastodon, 0 points, 0 comments]

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