Physicists aren’t real good philosophers (for better or worse), and thus these interpretive expressions are counter productive and edge nonsensical.

Okay, physicists say they don’t exist. Thanks.

The Universe isn’t a thing (state or collection of states.) the universe is the potential of all existence, which resolves into state in the moment of NOW.

This continuous collapse in the moment of now gives rise to the state of the universe.

Entanglement demonstrated there is an underlying aspect of existence (universal potential) of which space time emerges rather than the other way around.

Universal potential exists outside of space time. Space time is a manifestation of universal potential.

If we relate to string theory, we could say universal potential is a ~ten/eleven dimensional vibration of potential, of which time and space is an extrapolation.

Existence still exists. Objective Reality is the manifest form (state’s collapse) of universal potential in the moment of now (the only moment which truly exists.)

What we think of as existence and potential needs work. Thanks for keeping at it physicists!