This experiment explores the saturation of governance when cumulative asymmetry durably exceeds the corrective capacity accessible to the system.
Governance remains active and local, but can no longer bring the system back to a balanced regime.
Beyond a certain threshold, local correction no longer has any global effect. The system converges toward a non-zero irreducible state.
This is neither a delay nor a rule failure, but a physical saturation of governance capacity.
A system becomes thermodynamically irreversible when accumulated asymmetry exceeds the space of states still accessible to governance.
The point of no return is a capacity limit, not a steering failure.