The Shed Is the Stretching

Expansion’s inside face, ruled in the author’s words: the shedding is the perceived stretching itself, as its own growth. The universe does not leak into something. The leak is the getting-bigger.

Three consequences arrive as trivialities.

No centre. The shed is per-site wherever traffic moves, so the growth is everywhere-local — no source, no edge.

No substance. Nothing pushes. The “energy of empty space” the outside view puzzles over is the accounting shadow of a shed whose destination the corpus already parked as rest.

The horizon. At a black hole the grip is maximal and everything else is swallowed. The horizon is the one place the leak stands naked, and the world has already seen it there and named it Hawking radiation. That identification is the leak’s archetype and outside face, not its calibration: Hawking’s rate depends on the hole’s geometry; the universal number comes from structure, in §6.