This is your universe. The red line indicates the current age of the universe at 14.5 billion years. The surface of this manifold is closed and this universe will return to the same singularity from which it came in 505 billion years. The universe started expanding at a rate of $3.15\times 10^8\,m\,s^{-1}$, it is currently expanding at a rate of $2.99\times 10^8 \,m\,s^{-1}$ under a uniform deceleration of $3.67\times 10^{-11} m\,s^{-2}$.

This bilocal construction doesn't merely permit a minimum action as a postulate — it demands one, because there's no well-defined continuum to fall back on. Quantization isn't bolted on after the fact; it's baked into the geometry from the start.