&gt; <i>In the real universe it is always some present moment</i><p>That is rather naive. The entire succession of moments can be described as one object, in which time is a dimension. The unfolding through time is just the subjective experience of the human consciousness.<p>Some H.264 video also appears to unfold, presenting a depiction of events frame by frame. Yet, at the same time, it&#x27;s also just a 1.2 gigabyte file: a giant integer.