At the root we must actually start with a premise of Quantum Mechanics rather than lead up to it!
Why must information come in preset quanta or packets of data rather than a smooth sliding scale? Because to have causality and therefore time Itself you need to (at some point) break with infinity because when it comes to EXISTING , infinity turns the universe into nothing if it's involved in any SEQUENCE in certain areas of nature. In fact the Zero/Infinity equivalence is the prevailing theme of the universe itself.
Let me use deliberately mischievous phrasing here to sound like I'm talking nonsense, just to see if I can talk my way out of it. I'm not being a dick about, its the coolest way to make the point!
The reason why there is something rather than nothing is because something is not nothing at its core therefore it's not infinite either at its cause even though its infinite in its effect, ie its nothing in its effect.
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How can this not be a paradox, without even getting into the fact that the overall energy if the universe IS ACTUALLY ZERO? (I'll cover that later) It's Because it takes forever to cover infinite values no matter how fast you cover them. For Causality (What we perceive as the arrow of time) to exist the universe must be incremented in some basic minimum possible unit or nothing would ever happen and nothing could exist. Basically there is, at the core of nature some basic resolution which would seem super hi res compared to any digital pixilation we understand. Perhaps subatomically we may one day see quantum probabilistic 0's and 1's make up quarks fragments...
Let's use the example of simply lowering the pitch of a note on your guitar for sound, but it could apply elsewhere such as the frequency of light (ie lowering the frequency of violet to red)
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| Imagine a wave with limited, finite values instead of an infinite curve. |
In principle, Time (causality rather) passes because massless particles travel the fastest (photons or light) also at an irrelevant speed but because they lack mass its the fastest speed, which means the speed of light (electromagnetic waves that is) determines the upper limit, having no mass, and therefore basis of causality, because of Planck's number being finite) and all things that happen must happen from there, and why nothing with mass can ever travel faster than light (because of causality and Planck, not because of the light speed we assigned a number too) without an INFINITE amount of energy required for acceleration.
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