[kazinator]

> In the real universe it is always some present moment

That is rather naive. The entire succession of moments can be described as one object, in which time is a dimension. The unfolding through time is just the subjective experience of the human consciousness.

Some H.264 video also appears to unfold, presenting a depiction of events frame by frame. Yet, at the same time, it's also just a 1.2 gigabyte file: a giant integer.