Registry · Remark
V.R302
tau-effective
formalized
V.R302 — Fifth force vs. sixth force
Experimentalists search for a fifth force beyond gravity, EM, weak, strong. In tau's counting, Higgs/mass is already the fifth sector. A fifth force in the experimental sense would be a sixth sector, which the Sector Exhaustion Theorem forbids. Searches for fifth forces will continue to find nothing unless the signal is a readout artifact of the five existing sectors.