Scale Hierarchy and the Multiverse as Nested Recursion Domains

The scale hierarchy of the Cohesion Unified Field Theory is not a speculative addition
to the framework — it follows directly from the foundational axiom. If the observable
universe is under pressure from the next higher scale, then our universe is a bounded
recursion domain contained within a larger one, which is itself contained within a larger
one, without end in either direction. This paper develops that logical consequence. The
observable consequence of the scale hierarchy — that inflation and dark energy are
boundary effects of the containing scale — is established in the inflation and dark energy
papers and 25. The extension to the claim that other recursion domains are physically
real and potentially observable is a speculative prediction that cannot currently be
tested; it is clearly distinguished from what the framework requires. The multiverse in
the Cohesion UFT is nested, not parallel: each domain inherits pressure from the one
above, generates structure internally, and produces collapse wells that approach the
floor of the next lower scale. Inflation is a pressure gradient surge at the scale boundary;
dark energy is a pressure gradient drift; black holes are recursion wells approaching
the asymptote that connects to the lower scale; and structural time is scale-dependent.
This is the first account of multiverse geometry within the Cohesion UFT framework.