There Is No Space or Time in the Quantum World: Spacetime as Statistical Emergence

In standard physics, spacetime is the stage — it was always there, and everything else happens on it. This paper proposes the opposite: spacetime is not the stage. It is the show itself. We argue that space and time are emergent statistical structures — patterns that arise from the accumulation of quantum events, the same way temperature emerges from the motion of molecules. There is no spacetime at the quantum level. There is only what happens. This single shift in perspective opens new ways of looking at phenomena that have long resisted clean explanation: the double-slit experiment, quantum entanglement and non-locality, and the black hole singularity. This is SSE v1 — Statistical Spacetime Emergence — the first paper in a series.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-10-17
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23441110
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Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
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There Is No Space or Time in the Quantum World: Spacetime as Statistical Emergence

JongJin Ma
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
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There Is No Space or Time in the Quantum World: Spacetime as Statistical Emergence

JongJin Ma
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Abstract

In standard physics, spacetime is the stage — it was always there, and everything else happens on it. This paper proposes the opposite: spacetime is not the stage. It is the show itself. We argue that space and time are emergent statistical structures — patterns that arise from the accumulation of quantum events, the same way temperature emerges from the motion of molecules. There is no spacetime at the quantum level. There is only what happens. This single shift in perspective opens new ways of looking at phenomena that have long resisted clean explanation: the double-slit experiment, quantum entanglement and non-locality, and the black hole singularity. This is SSE v1 — Statistical Spacetime Emergence — the first paper in a series.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
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