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> The question now is whether this new, more primitive geometric approach to particle physics will allow theoretical physicists to slip the confines of space and time altogether.

I don’t think phrases like this refer to anything actually outside of space & time.

Simply that the models can calculate results without any need to reference space & time.

Lots of relations do that, but discovering a new one, with very interesting properties and structure, in an area where scientists are grasping for more insight, is encouraging.

Some examples of well known relationships that hold over physical transformations regardless of topology or direction of time are conservation laws.