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by baddox 5684 days ago
That's a great question. I'm not sure how motion (and thus transfer of information) would be possible in a discrete universe. A somewhat related question is whether the universe is the result of computation. Many thinkers have chimed in about the physics and philosophy of this sort of thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_finite_nature_hypothesi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_philosophy