One advantage of living in a fundamentally finite universe is that real-space, and the objects contained therein, can be compressed.  It would be possible to condense any set of finite data in the same way that we currently compress computer files because the properties of finite objects would be similar to those of files.  Repetition and patterns in the data can be condensed without losing the original information.  Unlike images, I would not recommend ‘losey’ compression.
When objects are finite in nature, another finite set can represent every essential detail of the object while taking up less storage space.  Think of how much detail is really essential to store an object.  Many of our measurements are relative.  How much an object weight, for instance, is a relation to a standard.  The weight of one hundred pounds depends entirely on the weight of a one pound standard.  Temperature is just as relative.  Do not think that mass is really all that different.
To represent a ball, for instance, we would only have to store such properties as the relative diameter of the ball and a generic description of the skin of the ball.  The color of the ball will depend on the way that the eye perceives the wavelength of light at the other end of the transfer.  You would need to know things like the atomic thickness of the ball, but not the exact position of the subatomic particles contained within it.  Any object can be reduced, in such a way, to a set of the properties that would allow exact replication of the object when it is removed from storage.
If you cannot tell the difference to the finite degree of measurement afforded by a limited universe, then there is no real difference.  This would allow for an object, compressed to a set called an ‘idea,’ to be transferred to an anti-matter universe without damage.  It’s properties would simply have to be restored within the framework of what is normal for that destination.  The properties of the atoms themselves are only significant as far as they can be used to uniquely identify the original object once the idea is reconstructed into an object.
Imagine traveling through such a system.  There is no reason why you could not add a sequencer to the quantum array used to store the ideas so that they can go about their natural lives while in transit.  Why should time run at the same rate within the array?  You could survive anywhere that the storage system could go.  Entire planets could be compressed into ideas and moved within such arrays.
A quantum array could store more than two states per bit, so the storage space per unit of physical space is higher than digital.  Need a new sun?  We can pack your whole planet and move it to your new system.  Why leave home when you can take it all with you.
Play back a supernova at slow speed and you could power a planet with it.  What exactly does partition locations in space from one another?  Is reality all in our heads?  Maybe life is just a dream.  Did I miss any cliches?

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