Luke_A_Somers comments on No Individual Particles - Less Wrong
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A full diagram in that style would be 1 dimension of graph for each dimension of space for each particle that happens to exist, and you have a separate diagram for each different combination of different numbers of particles.
Obviously, he's simplified it, so the answer to your question is just, "That's how he chose to reduce it".