Wednesday, 4/29/2026, 7:30 – 9 p.m. PDT

Thinking outside the container: spacetime philosophy for a new physics

Abstract:

The idea of space as the stage on which physical events play out dates at least as far back as the 5th century BC. The twentieth century saw a shift from theorising about space and time separately to thinking about spacetime, but the metaphor of spacetime as a stage or arena has continued. Twenty-first century physics looks likely to render this untenable – theories of quantum gravity do not appear to postulate…