Now We're Getting Somewhere

"Beyond making calculations easier or possibly leading the way to quantum gravity, the discovery of the amplituhedron could cause an even more profound shift, Arkani-Hamed said. That is, giving up space and time as fundamental constituents of nature and figuring out how the Big Bang and cosmological evolution of the universe arose out of pure geometry.

“In a sense, we would see that change arises from the structure of the object,” he said. “But it’s not from the object changing. The object is basically timeless.”

from Wired, "Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics"
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/amplituhedron-jewel-quantum-physics/all/