ok, then i'll suggest that maybe you have a look at writing code to demonstrate the principles you are talking about so much. i have done quite a bit of it myself, with difficulty adjustments, varying the hash functions, difficulty adjustment regimes, a former manager, used to be a physics researcher, explained PID controllers and that's very interesting and relevant. bitcoin is P only, i developed one that used integrals as well, and found it was REALLY good at accurately adjusting to sharp changes in hashpower (and this illustrated the way that if you can't predict how fast hashpower can change, you should not use a clamp).
i agree with you, in the principle that the model of time can't be continuous, and thus most of quantum theory is bunk. computation is much more accurate in understanding it, and the hard fact that you can't measure planck time does mean that you must use probability and algorithmic logic to understand the behaviour of matter, and everything that is made of matter. it's just a practical reality of programming, they have made the time window down to nanoseconds and that is still an eternity compared to the time precision you need to understand stuff like even, how to build computation devices.
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From my perspective Bitcoin is the demonstration. We don’t need to write more code to illustrate the principles, Bitcoin already shows them operating at planetary scale. Difficulty is the resistance mechanism that governs how fast the entropy surface can be collapsed. It scales the search space relative to most recent behavior of hashpower and hardware efficiency, and the heat released is literally proportional to that resistance. That keeps Bitcoin anchored to human time, but it doesn’t change the deeper point: the block itself is atomic time to the ledger.
I’m more broadly looking at the architecture of time that Bitcoin exposes. It is the first system where we can externally observe discrete, irreversible temporal quanta created by a thermodynamic process. That alone makes it the most valuable open-source laboratory for understanding time we’ve ever had. I don’t need more code to speculate; I can point directly to Bitcoin and invite falsification.
I think you’d agree on this: we live within a singular timechain (universe) of transformations originating from a verifiable genesis. That structure is ordered, irreversible, conserved, and finite. It is not just how Bitcoin works; I would extend it to how any coherent universe must work. Bitcoin just makes it visible to us, something we can point to as proof.
My language and understanding is still developing and changing.
Time precedes physics.