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> Because, fortunately, the world is not vector-based :) Why 'fortunately'?
I don't know. Actually thinking about it, viewed in terms of quantum mechanics the universe from our scale looks more like a bitmap image than a vector image. (Note that I have no actual knowledge of quantum physics for the purposes of this meandering nonsense of a comment.)
I ask because initially I tended to look at the universe as a really large bitmap - what is the smallest observable particle - thats our bit, everything else is a bitmap.
As I looked at the original post however I keep thinking that the purpose of physics is to determine standard rules and definitions that work across the entire scale.
That uniformity, comforting as it is, would make the entire thing vector-like (I think).