https://www.simonsfoundation.org/qua...antum-physics/

The link is a very lucid write-up of the actual science behind the "time and space are an illusion in a jewel" stories you might have seen bouncing around the last few days.

The advancement is a "jewel-like" geometric object, the amplituhedron, that radically simplifies calculating the probability amplitude of particle interactions. The historical significance is that it achieves that simplicity by discarding the 'common sense' notions of locality and unitarity, which have been central to but problematic for quantum physics up until now.

Indeed, even space-time is not a consideration in constructing the amplituhedron; space-time values in the output emerge from the geometry of the figure. The implication is that space and time themselves are properties arising from static, higher-dimensional geometries.

Personally, I find this discovery to resonate strongly with the notion of eternity expressed in Taoism as the "uncarved block," or in Buddhism by the model of Indra's Net. Most contemplative traditions, including Christian mysticism, arrive at some notion of unchanging eternity as a foundation and/or flipside to our temporal existence.