Maybe I was way off the first time I read it, but I could have sworn that Stephen Hawking's "Black Holes and Baby Universes" already claimed, decades ago, that

Maybe I was way off the first time I read it, but I could have sworn that Stephen Hawking's "Black Holes and Baby Universes" already claimed, decades ago, that the universe looped like that. If I remember right, there was some analogy likening us to ants crawling on the surface of the Earth, but I could be conflating it with something else.