"I donno about this one..."
I had doubts because it reads, at first, like New Age mystic commentary.
But, Phys Rev Letters and Nature are serious.
Big Time editing and peer review here. So it should be read carefully.
The point to look for is:
What new experiment or observation is the basis for the headline?
I can't see it. But this whole topic seems related to an article which sparked a lively thread a few months ago:
Deriving Dimensions: Emergence of a 4D World From Causal Quantum Gravity.
QM gives me a brain ache, so I can't focus on it just now. Maybe tomorrow.