I have heard some physicist friends of mine speculate that perhaps space and time themselves are just statistical ensembles of entanglement. At the macro scale

I have heard some physicist friends of mine speculate that perhaps space and time themselves are just statistical ensembles of entanglement. At the macro scale, we can measure distances and read clocks, but at the micro scale it’s like trying to measure the temperature of a single electron. Perhaps the definition of “close by” is just two states that are highly entangled. Since entanglement is contagious, this leads to clustering. It’s not clear why this would lead to 4 dimensional space time, and I’m not a physicist, but I thought it was an interesting idea.