Light does not experience time, and therefore cannot experience distance You can only get from place to place if there is a time difference from when you started to when you arrived. So space and time are not fundamental. This is shown in the Bell Inequality. The most common explanation is that there is action at a distance, but that can not be true because we know that General Relativity is true because of GPS. [GPS would be off by very significant amounts daily if not for corrections that were hardwired into the satellites based on slowing time down because of special relativity, and speeding it up because the satellites are further away from the earth.] Therefore, the reason for the Bell inequality is that things do not have classical values of space and time until they are measured (or interact with their environment.) (You can see this in Kant who holds that space is not comprehensible by reason. Dinge an sich. Things in themselves are beyond reason. The idea of Kant is that ,when reason goes beyond the realm of possibility of experience reason itself breaks down, and results in contradictions.)