  Popular wisdom amongst theoretical physicists says that spacetime is probably
not a fundamental entity of nature, but rather an emergent one. While most
arguments to support that view arise from very speculative ideas (usually
related to attempts to understand gravity at the quantum level), the argument
can also be made by only invoking standard physics. In this manuscript, I shall
argue that a novel theory of relativity -- which simply follows the three basic
principles that Einstein invoked as the building blocks of his theory of
general relativity -- might change the deal.
