{"id":235647,"date":"2026-04-21T18:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/spacetime-does-not-exist"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:04:20","slug":"spacetime-does-not-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/spacetime-does-not-exist","title":{"rendered":"Spacetime does not exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacetime-does-not-exist.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Einstein\u2019s picture of spacetime, a four-dimensional fabric uniting space and time, breaks down at the smallest scales, where quantum mechanics takes over. For decades, physicists have searched for an account of how spacetime \u201cemerges\u201d from this deeper quantum reality. But philosopher Sam Baron argues that the whole idea of spacetime \u201cemerging\u201d from something else makes no sense. All our accounts of how things \u201cemerge\u201d from something more fundamental presuppose spacetime, so the idea that spacetime itself emerges is circular. His radical conclusion is that we must abandon the project of reconciling spacetime and quantum mechanics, and accept that spacetime, at least as Einstein described it, does not exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Einstein\u2019s picture of spacetime, a four-dimensional fabric uniting space and time, breaks down at the smallest scales, where quantum mechanics takes over. For decades, physicists have searched for an account of how spacetime \u201cemerges\u201d from this deeper quantum reality. But philosopher Sam Baron argues that the whole idea of spacetime \u201cemerging\u201d from something else makes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235647","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}