I'm definitely into the "it's an emergent phenomena" camp. I think it's inherently relational, as that's a more efficient way to encode geometry rather than space itself being a quantized "thing".

Afaik this theory is the "leading"/imho most promising theory of "quantum gravity", that being the "gravity = entanglement" conjecture and the related ideas of "Complexity= action/volume/whatever" that susskind and many others have been developing for the past 20 so years.

All that said I'm nowhere near a physicist and am probably just spewing a total misunderstanding of the situation from my armchair.

That said, I've been incessantly watching lectures in this space to try to beat an understanding into my dumb dumb brain because it's super, super fucking cool.

- https://youtu.be/6_7aKoEx_kk

- https://youtu.be/6OpAreb779U

- https://youtu.be/9crggox5rbc

- https://youtu.be/OBPpRqxY8Uw

- https://youtube.com/@isqg423

I'm also fascinated by the idea of phase transitions, which seems to be how the laws of physics have "evolved" so far. It's crazy how much quantum computation is coming into play with this stuff, ex last year's Nobel prize with the bell inequality. That said I'm sure being a programmer I'm biased to think the universe is inherently computation/math.