Dissipation Closure and the Structural Scale of Gravitational Compression

A regime-based ontodynamic interpretation of gravitational compression is developed within Wayward Metamonism. Beginning from five minimal structural invariants, we introduce a dissipation-closure parameter κ as an emergent order parameter describing suppression of local autonomy under increasing compactness C = GM/(Rc2).

The parameter is calibrated using contemporary astrophysical constraints (2025–2026), including neutronization onset and pQCD-informed limits on maximum neutron star compactness Cmax ≲ 1/3. Gravitational collapse is reinterpreted as monotonic increase of closure. Neutron stars correspond to high but finite κ, while black holes represent the limiting regime κ → ∞, interpreted as global synchronization rather than physical singularity. A critical closure κc ∼ 102 is proposed as the structural threshold of neutron-star stability, potentially accounting for the observed distribution of compact objects in the ∼ 2.5–5 M⊙ range. The framework modifies no equations of general relativity and introduces no new fields; it provides a minimal structural scale for compact objects grounded in empirical constraints.