This "tick" theory gets my vote. I see c as an emergent quality of a base granularity. If the universe is a cellular automata then c would be related to the di

This "tick" theory gets my vote. I see c as an emergent quality of a base granularity. If the universe is a cellular automata then c would be related to the distance between two successive layers, between what just happened and what is happening now, between now and next.