Spacetime: continuous or quantized?

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What proof or evidence -both theoretical or emperical - is there, that spacetime is quantized or continuous?
 
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There is no experimental evidence for either. Continuous is assumed for General Relativity. Quantum theory is inadequate. Extensions that try to unite these theories seem to lean toward quantized.
 

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