Starless RELHICs as Threshold Systems: An Effective MetaTime v36.0 Interpretation of Cloud-9 near M94

Recent Hubble observations have confirmed that the neutral-hydrogen cloud known as “Cloud-9,”located near the spiral galaxy M94, contains no detectable stellar population. This result stronglysupports its classification as a reionization-limited H I cloud (RELHIC): a low-mass dark-matterhalo that retained neutral gas after cosmic reionization but failed to ignite star formation. REL-HICs occupy a narrow threshold regime in which small effective changes in baryonic dynamics canproduce discrete outcomes (star formation versus permanent starlessness). In this work we pro-pose a conservative and testable synthesis between RELHIC phenomenology and the MetaTimev36.0 framework, in which state evolution carries an…