Coded Reality Hypothesis – Maya 14

The Hypothesis of the Coded Reality (Māyā) interprets physical reality not as a continuous material medium but as an emergent phenomenon arising from discrete information processing within a three-dimensional planxel lattice.Planxels — elementary units of space-time at Planck-scale resolution — act as local processors of complex amplitudes σ(x, t).Their evolution is governed by 26-neighbour interactions (Moore neighbourhood), and macroscopic physics emerges from the iterative synchronization of these local informational updates. In this framework, physical laws are not fundamental constraints but stable patterns of information flow.Electromagnetism, quantum behaviour and gravitational effects arise as emergent properties of the propagation, interference and synchronization of σ across the lattice. A central result of the Māyā model is that the fine-structure constant α is not an arbitrary free parameter.Instead, α emerges from a variational stability principle applied to the planxel lattice, balancing three factors: • efficient propagation of informational waves,• suppression of cubic (ℓ=4) anisotropy,• minimization of geometric fluctuations η. The extremum of this functional corresponds to an effective propagation angle related to the golden ratio φ.This yields an emergent informational impedance with the numerical value: Ξ(θ_eff) = 360 / φ² – 2 / φ³ + 1 / (35 φ⁵) which evaluates to the model prediction: α⁻¹_Māyā ≈ 137.03699916476536679. This result corresponds to an emergent propagation angle: θ_eff ≈ 137.036°, confirmed by 3D simulations of the planxel lattice (N = 20–30) using both cubic and FCC kernels. The predicted value lies near the CODATA low-energy value of α, despite the fact that the model uses no parameter fitting.The result follows purely from lattice geometry, quasi-random phase rotation and the Fibonacci/φ structure that minimizes phase resonance. In this interpretation: • electromagnetism corresponds to stable phase propagation in the lattice,• quantum fluctuations arise from the η-terms in local updates of σ,• gravity emerges from local variations in the effective update rhythm (informational dilation), producing synchronization delays analogous to curvature. The Māyā hypothesis therefore unifies geometry, information and dynamics within a single discrete structure.It provides testable predictions — including the form of higher multipole corrections and the scaling of α(N) with lattice size — and suggests that the apparent continuity of physics is the large-scale limit of a deeper informational substrate.