Based on studying the works of Tarde and others, I now believe that ultimately, everything is different.
We simplify our world and treat things the same for convenience - but at some level of scale, you can always find diversity.
For example: the curvature of spacetime. For a long time people believed the earth was flat, because they couldn't really tell a difference within the scope of their human vision. The concept of a straight line only exists in Math - a movement in the reality of spacetime will never really have 0 displacement in 2 dimensions, and only displacement in a 3rd.
There are significant implications to this principle which will manifest themselves given a sufficiently large reference frame in spacetime. For example, a pair of photons ☯️ travelling together with a distance R between them; over time and space this distance would change, as there is a difference in potential/energy density between the photons (each is unique, they are not identical). The universe tends towards balance ⚖️.
Curiously, flow of time entails difference, for in a stationary state forces balance and hence nothing happens. Eventually, when the universe has attained balance, everything has happened.
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