Fornax's five ancient globular clusters orbit at kiloparsec radii where dynamical friction against a cuspy CDM halo should have sunk them into a nuclear cluster gigayears ago (Tremaine 1976; Cole 2012). The nucleus does not exist and the clusters have not moved. If the medium is there, they must sink; they have not sunk.
Dynamical friction is not optional: a particle halo is a responsive medium, and massive bodies orbiting through it lose energy at calculable rates. The escape, a large constant-density core that stalls the friction, is precisely the profile cuspy CDM simulations refuse to produce, so the cure for the timing problem is the core-cusp problem in different clothing.
SCT's answer is the bluntest in the sector: the clusters have not sunk because there is nothing to sink through. Fornax's dark-matter phenomenology is the coherent mesh contribution to Φ_eff (P50, P52), a smooth standing field rather than a sea of particles, and dynamical friction requires a responsive medium that can absorb the orbiting body's momentum, particle by particle, into a trailing wake. A field structure raises no wake and exacts no toll, so the globular clusters orbit for a Hubble time exactly where the deposit left them, and the missing nuclear star cluster is missing because the funnel that should have built it never operated.
The reading is doubly confirmed by the profile data: Fornax's stellar kinematics independently favor a cored mass distribution, which in SCT is not a lucky exception to cuspy expectations but the construction-level shape of the mesh term, gentle in the center and outskirts-weighted (P51), the same profile carrying the whole dwarf sector (recid 127, recid 143). Where ΛCDM needs the rare cored halo to coincidentally rescue the timing, SCT delivers core and stalled clusters as one statement: no particle medium, hence no cusp and no friction, two famous problems with a single absence as their answer. The no-friction physics is shared with the fast bars (recid 118) and the LMC's intact disk (recid 145); formalism in Paper 13, From Chaos to Coherent Gravity.
Keystone economy: P54 alone resolves the timing. The clock was telling the right time; the medium it accused was imaginary.
The kill follows the friction: if precision astrometry of Fornax's clusters over coming decades detects orbital decay at the rate a particle-medium wake predicts, the responsive halo is real and the no-friction reading fails. At the class level, SCT requires globular-cluster timing problems to be universal in dwarfs, since no dwarf carries a friction medium; discovery of a dwarf spheroidal whose cluster system shows the full inspiral-and-nucleus signature of particle-halo friction would break the universal absence the mechanism demands.