Think of a movie. Basically the concept behind it is to flash images so fast that we can trick our mind into thinking we're experiencing a continuous flow of reality. But actually there is no continuous flow, it is all just a bunch of single images, cells, frames, run in sequence. It is the same with those Christmas lights that look like the light is constantly moving around the string in a circle, but it is really just each light blinking in succession to create this illusion.
In my ponderings I extrapolated this over to life. Perhaps life is really just isolated events, or moments, run in sequence so fast that we are tricked into thinking there is this thing called time which is moving, or that there is a past and future. Perhaps each moment is a single unit or indivisible atom, existing independently from other moments, where time has no meaning, similar to a quanta, a packet, now known as a photon of light, massless particles which together make up a wave or beam of what we perceive as light.
Maybe these moments all together make up what we perceive as time and reality. Maybe there is some cosmick film projector that has caused these moments to flow from one to the next.
If this were true, the question from the end of my last entry about the derivation of E = mc² is answered: of course it doesn't matter that it is not continuous! Each moment in time is defined. The Big Bang singularity has a defined value. The very next frame after and the one right before are defined. Everything works out in one unified universal theory.
...but then this of course raises many more questions: Where is this magickal cosmick projector? Who is running it? What force causes one moment to move to another? What happens when the film runs out?
If we are characters in a theater on a screen, who is watching the movie? Is that guy in the third row illegally bootlegging our reality???
(and for you real sticklers out there, what happens in between these "moments?")