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If self-referential Class 4 computation is the pattern behind self-modelling systems, does the universe run on it too? SB-HC4A proposes a holographic automaton bounded by singularity surfaces, and the CMB paper tests a related question in the Planck data.

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Emergent Spacetime from Self-Referential Computation

A Hierarchical Cellular Automaton Framework (SB-HC4A)

A cosmological model in which the universe is a self-referential holographic Class 4 automaton bounded at every scale by singularity surfaces.

2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18698605 · Read (Zenodo)

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Formalization

Toward a Mathematical Formalization of the SB-HC4A Cosmological Model

A Recommended Approach

A formalization strategy for SB-HC4A, building on proven equivalences between cellular automata and quantum field theory.

2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22133504 · Read (Zenodo)

Preprint

Scale-Dependent Multifractal Structure in the Planck 2018 CMB

Evidence from Needlet-Based Detrended Fluctuation Analysis

The first multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis of the full-resolution Planck temperature map, compared with 500 Gaussian simulations.

2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20306784 · Read (Zenodo)

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