{"id":233986,"date":"2026-03-24T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/is-spacetime-fundamental-or-is-it-emergent-with-brian-cox"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:04:03","slug":"is-spacetime-fundamental-or-is-it-emergent-with-brian-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/is-spacetime-fundamental-or-is-it-emergent-with-brian-cox","title":{"rendered":"Is Spacetime Fundamental, or is it Emergent? With Brian Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gg2bn5_2EKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this conversation, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice are joined by physicist Brian Cox to explore one of the deepest open questions in modern physics: whether space and time are fundamental\u2014or emergent.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion spans emergent spacetime, quantum entanglement, black holes, wormholes, and the black hole information paradox, including ideas like ER = EPR, causality protection, and whether information is ever truly destroyed. The core idea centers on the possibility that spacetime itself emerges from deeper quantum information structures, challenging our intuitive understanding of reality.<\/p>\n<p>From \u2018Are We The Universe\u2019s Way of Knowing Itself? With Brian Cox\u2019: \u2022 Are We The Universe\u2019s Way of Knowing Itsel\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Get the StarTalk book, \u2018To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery\u2019 on Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PL0NFn\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PL0NFn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support us on Patreon: \/ startalkradio.<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE to StarTalk:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/is-spacetime-fundamental-or-is-it-emergent-with-brian-cox\">Continue reading \u201cIs Spacetime Fundamental, or is it Emergent? With Brian Cox\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this conversation, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice are joined by physicist Brian Cox to explore one of the deepest open questions in modern physics: whether space and time are fundamental\u2014or emergent. The discussion spans emergent spacetime, quantum entanglement, black holes, wormholes, and the black hole information paradox, including ideas like ER = [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233986","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}