Thus, the world described by the theory is far from the one we are familiar with. There is no longer space that “contains” the world, and no longer time “during the course of which” events occur. There are elementary processes in which the quanta of space and matter continuously interact with one another. Just as a calm and clear Alpine lake is made up of a rapid dance of a myriad of minuscule water molecules, the illusion of being surrounded by continuous space and time is the product of a farsighted vision of a dense swarming of elementary processes.
