If the amplituhedron truly represents the foundation of reality, it means space and time are illusions and not the fundamental fabric of the universe or reality itself. They are a consequence that emerges from a more fundamental geometric structure.
This shifts our understanding of how the universe exists:
1). by making space and time "Emergent”…
(like temperature emerges when atoms bounce around) This means spacetime may not exist at the deepest level of reality. It is a macroscopic illusion created by a shape existing in non linear higher dimensions.
2. Nothing is “local”…
In our universe, things can only interact if they are right next to each other (known as locality)…If spacetime is an illusion, then on a fundamental level, distance doesn’t exist and everything is connected. This explains quantum entanglement, where two particles mimic each other no matter the distance (could be light years). What Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”
3. Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can now “Merge”…
Physics is currently missing the link between gravity (relativity) and particles (quantum mechanics). The math is incompatible. But by removing spacetime from those equations, the amplituhedron provides new math that could finally unite the two in a “Theory of Everything."
It all implies that everything is just pure math. What we think of as the foundation of existence… matter, energy, the void of space, doesn’t actually exist. There is only geometry.
We are living inside the projection of massive, multi dimensional mathematical object.
The amplituhedron