This piece is a personal journey that starts with a naive question about spacetime and ends in an uncomfortable place; the idea that quantum mechanics, gravity, and even physical constants might emerge from something simpler and more constrained than we expect.
I don’t ask you to believe the conclusions; only to consider the question: if reality had no freedom to be otherwise, what does that mean for physics… and for us? obviously 100% contrary to the 10^500 possible-universes of String Theory