{"id":222443,"date":"2025-09-25T04:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/space-time-doesnt-exist-but-its-a-useful-framework-for-understanding-our-reality"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:23:37","slug":"space-time-doesnt-exist-but-its-a-useful-framework-for-understanding-our-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/space-time-doesnt-exist-but-its-a-useful-framework-for-understanding-our-reality","title":{"rendered":"Space-time doesn\u2019t exist, but it\u2019s a useful framework for understanding our reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-time-doesnt-exist-but-its-a-useful-framework-for-understanding-our-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether space-time exists should be neither controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of \u201cspace-time,\u201d \u201cevents\u201d and \u201cinstants.\u201d The idea that space-time exists is no more viable than the outdated belief that the celestial sphere exists: both are observer-centered models that are powerful and convenient for describing the world, but neither represents reality itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether space-time exists should be neither controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of \u201cspace-time,\u201d \u201cevents\u201d and \u201cinstants.\u201d The idea that space-time exists is no more viable than the outdated belief that the celestial sphere exists: both are observer-centered models that are powerful and convenient for describing the world, but neither represents reality itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}