The Structural Determinant Hypothesis

This work is an analytical study in the philosophy of physics. It proposes an explanatory model — the Structural Determinant Hypothesis (SDH) — which formulates a structural ground for the configuration of fundamental physical constants. The hypothesis rests on an ontological intuition grounded in the observed organization of reality: everything that exists in the observable world is held together through structure and balance, not through enumeration of all possible variants. The SDH extrapolates this observed principle to the fundamental level: reality is structural equilibrium — a point of stability at which the system is internally consistent — rather than a catalogue of all mathematically consistent possibilities or the result of stochastic selection from an infinite multiplicity. The SDH posits the existence of an atemporal logical principle that realizes only those configurations of reality which are simultaneously algorithmically compressible (in the Kolmogorov–Chaitin sense) and admit self-reference. The hypothesis is compared with the Multiverse theory, Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (MUH), Smolin's Cosmological Natural Selection (CNS), and both forms of the anthropic principle. The work demonstrates that the SDH is substantively distinct from MUH in two operationally distinguishable classes of structures lacking a ground for being equilibrium. The principal limitations of the work — non-falsifiability in Popper's sense and the substantive indeterminacy of the determinant — are stated explicitly. The work is addressed to philosophers of physics and methodologists of science.