In digital physics, the Fredkin Finite Nature Hypothesis states that ultimately all quantities of physics, including space and time, are discrete and finite. All measurable physical quantities arise from some Planck scale substrate for multiverse information processing. Also, the amount of information in any small volume of spacetime will be finite and equal to a small number of possibilities.[1]
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Stephen Wolfram in A New Kind of Science, Chapter 9, considered the possibility that energy and spacetime might be secondary derivations from an informational substrate underlying the Planck scale. Fredkin's "Finite Nature" and Wolfram's ideas on the foundations of physics might be relevant to unsolved problems in physics.
If the multiverse is a totally finitary informational process, then there is likely to be some violation of the equivalence principle.