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[โ€“] Atlas_@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I know not enough physics to tell if this is reasonable but...

What if there's not just 4 base forces but 5, or an infinite class of them? Say something that falls off sub-quadratically but with a significantly lower constant than gravity? Or a whole class of forces that fall off less and less slowly, but have smaller and smaller constants as they do?