setAI - if I understand you right, I believe I was wondering the same thing.
What if the relationship between the 'slides' we see is just a coincidence about us (like a kind of anthropic principle)? Maybe the sequence of events is different than we see it, but we see it in a particular way...
I have a question, but I am not sure how to express it.
I have been thinking about the idea of the universe as a four-dimensional object, with time as just another dimension. I have also been thinking about David Deutsch's idea of the universe as a sequence of quantized slices or slides...