A basic feature of how the Universe works is "smoothly" - objects move gradually from one point to the next, without stopping. (The alternative to this might be some kind of pixilated version of the u...A basic feature of how the Universe works is "smoothly" - objects move gradually from one point to the next, without stopping. (The alternative to this might be some kind of pixilated version of the universe, in which objects can only exist on a grid, and they move by jumping from point to point.