Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature of general relativity as background independence.


Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)


Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature...

Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature...

Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature...

Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature...