Why space is an illusion

Space may seem like a simple idea some things are here some things are there and there's a distance between them that's we don't really think of space as a thingit's just the backdrop in which everything else happens but exactly separates here from there we've known since einstein that the distance between two objects depends on who you ask as an observer moving at close to the speed of light and one standing still will disagree about how far a part two points in space are as you get closer to the speed and there get closer to becoming just the sameplace but it gets weirder einstein also showed that mass and energy bend space and time and that's what we experience as gravity in this view space and time sort of rest on top of the gravitational fields created by the masd and energy in the universe problems in this happy arrangement breaks down when you try to apply it at really small scales where quantum effects take hold crazy as it sounds we don't actually have a concept of space that's been proven to work for both galaxies and quarks but there are some theories one idea called loop quantum gravity views space and time as lumpy the result of a vast network of knots braids and twists that carry information one kink in the network might correspond to say an electron while a different one a few links away might be a quark the connessctedess of the network  determine how when and where particles ineract giving rise to what we precive as space and time a different thoery called causal sets views space at  time as just a vast collection of instance rather than being a random jumble these individual events are linked by causality if you take them as a whole idea of space and time emerges sort of like how the concept of temprature emerges from the motion of many particles acting togather these are not the only theories thatmight explain what space is where it comes from and we don't know which if any of them is right but they all point to a common end space is not a fundamental part of reality it arises from something else something to pondor next time you are trying to get from here to there