Spacetime -- a creation of well-known actors?

(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) Most physicists believe that the structure of spacetime is formed in an unknown way in the vicinity of the Planck scale, i.e. at distances close to one trillionth of a trillionth of a metre. However, careful considerations undermine the unambiguity of this prediction. There are quite a few arguments in favour of the fact that the emergence of spacetime may occur as a result of processes taking place much 'closer...