I have finally decided to put on arXiv a slightly remastered version (with figures) of my submission to the Beyond Spacetime essay contest. I have slightly tamed the provocative tone but it remains a bit rough. I still post it because I think it puts together many arguments I often make informally in seminars.

The winning essays took a slightly less head on approach to the subject of the contest, which was “Space and Time After Quantum Gravity“:

• Why Black Hole Information Loss is Paradoxical, by David Wallace, arXiv
• Problems with the cosmological constant problem, by Adam Koberinski, PhilSci

Wallace’s article is an answer to Tim Maudlin’s article I had mentioned here, but I have not read it yet.