Comment Re:space & time as emergent properties (Score 1) 600
Much of that analysis might be applied to the photon, as a purely mathematical construct to explain the quantized transfer of action between two events having (by definition) no separation in space-time. However electrons are affected by the intervening space even when there is no interaction, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov-Bohm_effect