CLARIFICATION: Here the term "surreal" is used in the more general colloquial sense as "something very strange" and not in the sense of the totally wrong statement by AI (obviously, AI cannot be blamed for its ignorance): "The very theories of physics suggest an observer-dependent reality, a core theme in surrealist thought."
In 1908 Hermann Minkowski (Einstein's professor of mathematics) announced his "utterly revolutionary" discovery (using his own expression in the draft version of his 1908 lecture) - that the concept of spacetime (he called it die Welt) represents a real four-dimensional world and is not just a mathematical space (https://minkowskiinstitute.com/mip/MinkowskiFreemiumMIP2012.pdf).
What now makes the situation in fundamental physics not merely surreal but disturbingly unprecedented is that for over a 100 years most physicists and philosophers of science have been behaving as if nothing extraordinarily happened. Their most frequent argument is that the concept of spacetime is simply a mathematical space, which does not represent a real four-dimensional world. But, this "explanation" completely and inexplicably ignores the fact that experiments would be impossible if the world were not four-dimensional. To see this, assume that the world is three-dimensional and read Minkowski's paper. All experiments, for which Minkowski stated that they demonstrated the four-dimensionality of the world, would be impossible in a three-dimensional world. Also, in addition to length contraction, time dilation and the twin paradox effect, which would be impossible in a three-dimensional world, GPS as well would not work, if the world were not four-dimensional. However, science does not work by ignoring challenging and counter-intuitive facts and arguments especially those that are firmly based on the experimental evidence. Science works and advances by facing and addressing particularly facts and arguments, which appear to question the accepted worldview.
Colleagues who are prepared to finally challenge Minkowski's demonstration that the concept of spacetime represents a real four-dimensional world and is not merely a mathematical space, can do it professionally by publishing their objections in a journal paper or submit a chapter to the special volume:
Asher Yahalom (ed.), Hermann Minkowski and the Reality of Spacetime (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2026):
https://www.minkowskiinstitute.com/mip/books/minkowski3.html
John Lighton Synge wrote this 65 years ago and, unfortunately, things are pretty much the same now (J. L. Synge, Relativity, The General Theory (1960), p. IX):
"The geometrical way of looking at space-time comes directly from Minkowski. He protested against the use of the word 'relativity' to describe a theory based on an 'absolute' (space-time), and, had he lived to see the general theory of relativity, I believe he would have repeated his protest in even stronger terms... It is to support Minkowski's way of looking at relativity that I find myself pursuing the hard path of the missionary. When, in a relativistic discussion, I try to make things clearer by a space-time diagram, the other participants look at it with polite detachment and, after a pause of embarrassment as if some childish indecency had been exhibited, resume the debate in their own terms."