[BobbyTables2]

The discrete and “xor” parts of your comment made me think of this:

https://wolframphysics.org/

(Though I realize likely many have various objections)

I still struggle a bit with General Relativity. Understand everything is moving at a constant speed through spacetime (speed of light in a vacuum) with just the direction slightly shifting from “only along time” to the spatial dimensions.

I find it both elegant but also viscerally disturbing. Connecting time and spatial movement makes the universe seem artificial. Know it comes out from Maxwells’ equation… but it feels “wrong”.

Seems all human physical snd chemical activity is just preoccupied with transferring momentum from objects with slightly different angles of motion.