The universe is a single, fixed, #mathematical structure—a hierarchical tree of information (p‑adic in geometry, holographic in information content). Its nodes are the elementary “events”; its edges are the relations between them. It does not evolve, move, or change. It simply is—a completed crystal.
What we call “time” is the sequential traversal of this static graph by a localized observer‑subgraph (e.g., a brain). What we call “#space” is a low‑resolution, coarse‑grained projection of the network’s topology onto a smooth manifold—a holographic screen. What we call “quantum randomness” is our epistemic ignorance of the deterministic branches we are about to encounter.