A model is only a model which is to say that it is only an analogy; it cannot explain or illustrate every aspect of the real thing. It represents certain features only. Wherever it falls short, we modify the model or use another. Thus, different analogies deal with different facets. A group of models enable us to cover greater ground, which is why several are used here.
The Atomic Model is supposed to, but fails to, divide matter up into units that still retain the same properties of the original material - not unless the matter in question consists of a pure element. The Sliver Model succeeds in this respect. Its particles retain the properties of the original.
Slivers are infinitely small yet, paradoxically, they are the same size as the universe. We have no choice but to work on that scale - the reason being everything is one (the first of the two axioms accepted as given). To deal with anything smaller would involve an unnatural simplification. Those smaller pieces would be artifacts. The problem, then, is how to divide the universe into infinitesimally small pieces, without actually dismantling it.
We do that, not in terms of any physical dimension, but in the dimension of time.
Now then, the Atomic Model has brought up what appears to be a conundrum: is matter particulate or is it wavelike? I would suggest that it doesn't matter; both involve the notion of granularity. Whichever way you look at it, he universe is granular. It has an off/on, yes/no aspect.
I postulate that there is a 'bottom-end' granularity below which one can't get. I suggest that there's a lower limit in terms of time that I wish to incorporate into the Sliver Model.
Think of the sliver as an instantaneous instant. The crest of a wave would be that instant. And the trough of the wave (or possibly its zero-amplitude point) is the interval between instants. Nothing exists there! The universe switches on-and-off continually.
So, take the entire universe. For the sake of convenience, think of it in terms of three dimensions. Take a snapshot of the whole. Improve its resolution until the digital representation is as good as the original; it will therefore contain all of its information. That, essentially, is the starting point of my Sliver Model.
A sliver is an 'existence element'. It is the universe as it exists in its entirety, whole, un-pieced, for the briefest instant possible, an instant so brief that it cannot be said to have any duration.
Take that digital picture. Reduce it to a number - or a GPS matrix of numbers - each position in the matrix corresponding to every possible physical position in the universe, with a numerical value that stands for what you could find there (empty space, a photon, electron, whatever).
Next, file away that 3-D hologram in the gallery. Do that for every possible permutation, each sliver, of the universe. Now we have something meaty to work with!