Orthogonal Dissipation: Logical Unfolding of Reality and Physical Modes of a Single Process A Wayward Metamonism Ontodynamic Article

Within the processual ontology of Wayward Metamonism, all physical regimes are derived from a single prohibition: the impossibility of absolute identity and absolute symmetry. This prohibition generates a primordial conflict of actualization. The conflict cannot be resolved but only redistributed. This redistribution is dissipation (diss) — not loss, but transfer of tension into a new degree of freedom. The minimal and forced channel of such redistribution is orthogonality: every new degree of freedom emerges as an independent continuation of dissipation. Metric unfolding 0 → 1 → 2 → 3D is shown to be a sequence of orthogonal discharges; 4D appears as global orthogonality to the entire 3D configuration (centripetal concentration). After exhaustion of dimensional expansion, dissipation transitions into a quantitative regime (multiplicity of nodes). Observed “forces” are interpreted as modes of a single process: mass as localized unfinished dissipation; strong interaction as full compensation of global and local flows; weak interaction as forced reorientation of closed conflict; electromagnetism as orthogonal stabilization of momentum; gravity as a shadow mode (indentation of dissipation sources into deficit zones of global flow). The Casimir effect is interpreted as a laboratory manifestation of gravity. Orbits are described as compensation zones between gravitational pressure and local dissipative flows.