Quote - I always thought that it was the opposite, ie quantum physics proved that 'analog' reality was made up of indivisible units (of energy and matter) when everyone had been thinking it was one continuous stream. The word Quantum/Quanta itself means discrete unit BTW

Like the wave/particle argument: We are both right. It's that indeterminancy element of quantum physics that I was referring to, not the idea that there are discrete units. It's not the unitary nature of reality that is "anti-binary," it's the lack of uniformity. I'm way out of my scientific depth here, but I think the difference between a chemical photo and a digital photo is a good analogy.

Digital photos present data in a uniform grid. A rectangle of 0,0,0 surrounded by eight 255,255,255 rectangles the same size and shape is a minimal eyeball. Crisping the resolution simply means more, smaller rectangles and more discrete colors, possibly more than the human eye can distinguish, laid on a grid, the dots smaller than the "circle of confusion." Magnifying the image eventually brings the regular polygons back to the foreground, so to speak. Think of the difference between magnifying a digital photo and an analog photo.

A "real" photograph resolves, as you magnify it, into irregular blobs, not 2D shapes. I suppose the boundaries of the blobs may be fractal (I'm not sure how fractals fit in here, but they occupy a place in my theology similar to the heresy of randomness), but I'm dubious, since fractals are regular and halide stains don't seem to be.