Atoms fall naturally into groups. Slivers may be classified into groups, or subsets, too. Atoms react to one another and form bonds. Is there a connection between slivers?
The first thing that to realize is that, whereas there are only about 100 different atoms, there are umpteen different slivers. In fact, every sliver is unique, so how could they be grouped? It would seem to be impossible.
Although we cannot form groups composed of identical slivers, it would be possible to form sets of slivers based on having certain relationships with other sets. These would be determined by terms such as order, proximity, adjacency, entropy, encompassment, game theory, and directionality.
To begin, most slivers consist of nonsense, of course. There's no order to them. They consist of a random arrangement of black-white-and-greys like the TV screen image you used to get in the day that programming was not 24/7. Only an infinitesimal subset of slivers obtained by randomly filling every possible location in a 3-D universe results in something stable and functional. Obviously, therefore, the largest group of slivers might well be named 'White noise'.
Even though the remaining slivers constitute an infinitesimal group, it is important to realize that they are still infinite in number. Inconceivably so. And it is this set that we are interested in, and need to subdivide and examine.