Early Registrable Diagnostics of Structure Formation

Within a structure-first framework, only changes that produce persistent records are observationally accessible. This paper introduces a registrability hierarchy in which gravity and magnetism emerge as the earliest observable diagnostics of structural change, preceding matter formation, entropy production, and luminous emission. Gravitational lensing, trajectory restriction, and magnetic coherence are shown to provide direct, registrable signatures of formation and collapse processes occurring outside the regime of matter. A practical interpretive framework is developed for re-analyzing existing astrophysical datasets without introducing new entities or modifying established physical formalisms.