Why physicists stay seeking to eliminate space-time solely

The first time a physicist instructed me they sought after to eliminate space-time, on a chilly January morning previous this yr, I ended typing my interview notes and clutched my New Scientist mug of tea. Space-time is the very cloth of bodily fact – the 4-dimensional framework that holds the whole thing within the universe. But now the skilled on my display screen used to be telling me: “The concept of space-time come what may has to head. The perception of space-time can’t in reality be a unconditionally basic one, and needs to be…