We develop a reformulation of the collapse threshold criterion in the Stochastic Rupture (SR) framework based on a local causal occupation parameter Π(ξ) = S ent irrev (ξ)/IBek(ξ), where S ent irrev is the irreversible component of entanglement entropy, dened operationally through the dissipative channels of the Lindblad master equation, and IBek(ξ) = 2πξ⟨E⟩ξ/(ℏc ln 2) is the BekensteinCasini modular bound at the same scale. Two structural results are established. First, the alternative holographic normalization A(ξ)/(4ℓP²) is tested against experimental He-4 critical data and rejected: it misses the empirical saturation ratio by 4366 orders of magnitude at every scale, a structural failure traced to the energy-independence of the area bound. The modular normalization reproduces the He-4 ratio χ ≈ 3.5 × 10−2 of the consolidated framework at laboratory scale. Second, the replacement of total entanglement entropy by its irreversible component resolves, without manual exclusion rules, the transparency of glass and diamond, the opacity of rocks, metallic reection, the frequency-dependent transparency of water, and the persistence of superconducting currents, via the rigorous relation S ent irrev ∝ Im ε(ω). A network section identies the causal-cost problem on condensed SR relational graphs as a rst-passage-percolation problem, conjecturally in the KPZ universality class, whose geodesic-wandering exponent 2/3 matches the empirical bottleneck exponent 0.700 and the 2/3 exponent appearing independently in the SR spectral-tilt programme. Three falsiable numerical predictions are stated. Because Π depends only on the measurable quantity Im ε(ω) rather than on microscopic structure, it oers a single dimensionless criterion applicable across material classes from gapped insulators to metals that may be of independent interest for material screening in low-loss photonics.
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