It is standardly claimed in loop quantum gravity (LQG) that spacetime both disappears, fundamentally, and emerges from spin-networks in the low energy regime. In this paper, I critically explore these claims and develop a variety of substantival and relational interpretations of LQG for which these claims are false. According to most of the interpretations I consider, including the “received interpretation”, it is in fact false that spacetime emerges from spin-networks. In the process of supporting these claims, I also explain why spacetime is thought to be missing from the theory's fundamental ontology and demonstrate how this conclusion depends on our interpretation of the theory. In fact, I will argue that for a variety of interpretations spacetime survives quantization just as the electromagnetic field survives quantization. The upshot of the following analysis is a much needed clarification of the ontology of LQG and how it relates, or fails to relate, to the spacetime of general relativity.

在循环量子引力（LQG）中，标准地宣称，时空从根本上消失了，并且在低能状态下从自旋网络中消失了。在本文中，我批判性地探索了这些主张，并提出了对LQG的各种实质性和关系性解释，这些解释对这些主张都是错误的。根据我考虑的大多数解释，包括“已接受的解释”，事实上时空是从自旋网络出现的，这是错误的。在支持这些主张的过程中，我还解释了为什么认为该理论的基本本体中缺少时空，并说明了该结论如何取决于我们对该理论的解释。实际上，我将争辩说，对于多种解释，时空可以在量化中生存，就像电磁场在量化中生存一样。