rooke-poole

The Poole Manifold is a three-dimensional totalistic cellular automaton defined on a cubic lattice with Moore neighborhood. It is governed by the B5–7/S5–9 rule together with a prime-resonance sharpening mechanism. From this minimal rule set there emerge three principal capabilities: universal computation realised through full adders, multi-bit registers, an 8-bit parallel ALU, and an opcode multiplexer; immortal memory in the form of topologically protected latches that remain stable under noise; and self-healing logic that repairs damaged waveguides using incoming kinetic mass. The same local rules also generate an expanding lattice with a sustained succession flux Φ ≈ 0.3095 and yield an emergent discrete gravity model (OTG) that provides a better fit to DESI BAO data than standard ΛCDM. All results were obtained from GPU-based simulations. The Poole Manifold therefore constitutes a minimal discrete substrate capable of supporting robust computation, persistent memory, self-repair, and emergent cosmological behaviour.