%0 Journal Article %T Geometry from quantum particles %A David W. Kribs %A Fotini Markopoulou %J Physics %D 2005 %I arXiv %X We investigate the possibility that a background independent quantum theory of gravity is not a theory of quantum geometry. We provide a way for global spacetime symmetries to emerge from a background independent theory without geometry. In this, we use a quantum information theoretic formulation of quantum gravity and the method of noiseless subsystems in quantum error correction. This is also a method that can extract particles from a quantum geometric theory such as a spin foam model. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0510052v1