In <!g>general relativity, the choice of the time dimension is fairly arbitrary: you can slice <!g>spacetime lots of ways. In quantum gravity, time vanishes entirely as an independent phenomena. All one has are three-dimensional geometries floating in a superspace. Arbitrary arrangements of them in near proximity replicates the appearance of a continuous four-dimensional spacetime; in this sense the universe we experience as spacetime is a construct of an <!g>ontologically prior but ever present superspace of geometries lacking time. In turn, such a superspace obeying the laws of quantum <!g>field theory raises the question of its origin and the origin of its laws. Where do superspace and the laws of nature come from?