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#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Space Time Fundamental?
I think that time is fundamental and quote goes all the way down. And space does not. But what is time then? I think that time, the activity of time is the continual creation of events from existing events. So if there's no events, there's no time. Then there's not only no time, there’s no nothing. The universe has a history which goes to the past. I believe the future does not exist. There's a notion of a present and a notion of the past. This is the idea of causality. Okay, so that's real. That's in my interview is real. Or hypothesis or the theories that I have been working to develop
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