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| Language: | English |
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Zenodo
2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20173316 |
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- <p>Abstract</p> <p> </p> <p>This paper documents and begins the formalization of the Self-Identifying Universe hypothesis, a cosmological proposal developed within the Schoff Research Program. The central claim is: the observable universe is the interior of a black hole, and every black hole in the universe is that same universe viewed from the exterior. The event horizon of a black hole is the cosmological boundary. Entering a black hole from outside is geometrically equivalent to entering the universe — the same topology, approached from the other side of the boundary. The proposal is strictly a single-universe topology: there are no parent universes, no baby universes, no infinite regress of nested cosmologies. The universe is one closed, self-identifying structure whose interior and exterior are the same region approached from opposite directions — the spatial analog of the temporal loop closure cosmology already established in the Schoff Research Program. The paper develops the theoretical motivation, identifies the existing physics literature that partially supports the proposal, states the specific mathematical requirements for full formalization, and specifies the empirical predictions that would distinguish this topology from standard cosmology. The causal asymmetry between black hole interior and exterior — normally treated as a fundamental obstacle — is reframed as a perspectival feature of the topology: which direction is forward depends on which side of the boundary the observer occupies, consistent with the observer-relative account of temporal direction developed in the program's physics formalization series.</p> <p> </p> <p>Keywords: black hole cosmology, single universe topology, self-identifying boundary, loop closure, event horizon, cosmological boundary, causal structure, BCC cosmology, observer-relative causality</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>