Paper 1 of 4 in the Merkabit companion series. Base document: Stenberg, S. "The Merkabit — A Ternary Computational Unit on the Eisenstein Lattice" (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.18758137, v4, March 2026). We report the stretched-exponential (KWW) relaxation exponent α ≈ 1.18–1.48 across fourteen independent measurements on twelve platforms spanning nine physical domains, five states of matter, and twenty-four orders of magnitude in timescale (0.44 ns to 19 Myr). Systems include Ge/SiGe singlet-triplet quantum dots (Zhang et al. 2023; Tsoukalas et al. 2026), superconducting transmons in a topological prethermal DTC (Xiang et al. 2024), the kagome antiferromagnet Mn₃Sn near spin reorientation (Ogawa et al. 2026), tokamak ELM relaxation at ASDEX Upgrade (Cavedon et al. 2019), Hurricane Dorian rapid intensification (HURDAT2/NOAA HRD 2019), colloidal gel DLS at the arrest transition (Duri & Cipelletti 2006), IBM Eagle r3 T2 fluctuation distributions (Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.17881116), pre-ictal EEG dynamics (CHB-MIT, PhysioNet), meditation EEG spectral ratio (Braboszcz et al. 2017), quasar optical variability (SDSS Stripe 82 + ZTF, 885 KWW fits), and the Perseus cluster intracluster medium (Chandra, ~900 ks). Random-effects meta-analysis: weighted mean α = 1.3393 ± 0.0197, 95% CI 1.301, 1.378, I² = 0.0% (zero heterogeneity). The exact value α = 4/3 = 8/6 is derived in the companion Paper 2 from the dual-tetrahedral vertex count and Eisenstein lattice coordination number with zero free parameters. Negative control confirmed: the MBL DTC (Mi et al. 2022) gives α = 0.82, outside the cooperative window. Hurricane internal controls (TS stage α = 3.0, post-peak α = 2.0) confirm the transient nature of the threshold state. The mechanism is cooperative cascade dynamics (ξ = 3.0, conditional decay ratio 3.11, cascade onset n* ~ 12 Floquet periods). Palmer–Stein distributed relaxation is excluded by Bernstein's theorem (α ≤ 1 ceiling). Companion papers:Base paper - Stenberg, S.The Merkabit - A Ternary Computational Unit on the Eisenstein Lattice/10.5281/zenodo.18925475 Paper 2 — Architecture: "A Single Geometric Constant Generates the Fine Structure Hierarchy" Paper 3 — Hardware: Ge/SiGe quantum dot gap analysis (forthcoming) Paper 4 — Biology: Z₃ symmetry and meditative states in human EEG (forthcoming) Code repository: https://github.com/SelinaAliens/merkabit-companion-analysis
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