Space as an amorphous container of things disappears from physics with quantum gravity. Things (the quanta) do not inhabit space; they dwell one over the other, and space is the fabric of their neighboring relations. As we abandon the idea of space as an inert container, similarly we must abandon the idea of time as an inert flow, along which reality unfurls. Just as the idea of the space continuum containing things disappears, so too does the idea of a flowing continuum “time,” during the course of which phenomena happen.
