I’ve been thinking about how the Wolfram model treats manifold-like behavior as an emergent, approximate property of the underlying hypergraph. In regions of extreme causal-edge density — for example near black hole interiors — the manifold approximation is expected to break down.

My question is this:

When the manifold structure collapses, does the distinction between different effective “universes” (different limiting foliations or rule-equivalence classes in the Ruliad) also collapse?

In other words, if spatial distance and branchial distance both arise from constraints on causal reducibility, then in a region where those constraints fail (because the updating is too dense or too singular), do previously distant parts of branchial space become adjacent?

The speculative idea is that a black hole interior might serve as a region where manifold structure, branchial separation, and even differences between emergent effective laws of physics lose their usual distinctions, because the underlying hypergraph is no longer well-approximated by any smooth foliation.

Could this imply that a black hole is a nexus where different emergent universes in the Ruliad could become computationally adjacent in ways they normally aren’t, like an even more speculative variation on a wormhole? A bridge entangling parts of the Ruliad whose physics don't even look the same?

I’m wondering whether anything in the current WPP formalism supports or contradicts this possibility, but this is well outside my area of study. If anyone deep into the Wolfram Physics Project has explored this rather sci-fi notion, I would be grateful to hear their musings!