David,
"Emerge. Simplify. Stratify. Localize."
What a marvelous way to organize a theory of time in which quantum events drive local observation.
Sea Time and Queue Time appear to be a true unification of relativistic time--where time is a simple continuous and reversible parameter--and quantum momenta, which appear as real-valued outcomes, positive, negative and zero. I love the metaphor of Sea time as a continuous knob and Queue time as many single pole, triple-throw switches. One imagines that the continuous and infinitely orientable "knob" outputs values at every chronon increment that correspond to one of the triple posiitions. Maybe the answer, somewhere in time, really is 42. :-) The model answers Einstein's challenge to discrete physical functions (The Meaning of Relativity), in that although one can give good reasons why reality cannot be represented in a continuous field theory, if quantum theory is correct, one should have a theory that completely describes the world in quantum numbers.
On a personal note, the "truss shell model" spoke to me on an issue I have struggled over in my own research. To arrive at a 10-dimension limit of 4-dimension spacetime, I summed the cardinal points of discrete spatial dimensions up to non-redundant points of the Riemann tensor metric. Though I found the sum useful, I could never identify any good physical reason to do it. Your model ("...the spacetime process itself ...") is exactly what I had in mind and was never so bold to express. The cardinal totality of points in the tensor field (16) with 6 redundant points, results, as you say, in 10 dimensions transverse to each cell. In my model, as in your cold graphene macro-molecule, emergent waves carry away energy. I have generalized to the result:
The 4-dimension horizon is identical to the 10-dimension boundary.
As in your model, this obviates a compactification problem in my model as well. I do hope you can make time to read my FQXI essay, "Time counts."
David Finkelstein, may your tribe increase.
Tom