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What if the speed of light were slower?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Speed of Flight Depends on the Speed of Light, Right?

The speed of light doesn't just affect light and photons. It also determines how fast some of these fundamental particles can move, right? And also kind of like the range of their effect, right? Like i'm taking some of the force particles, if they could move faster or slower than ther their tit wouldn't be strong,. That's certainly true. While if the universe was differentif the speed of light was slower, we couldn't have as large a structure forming in the universe. In order to have a structure form, you need to have information go back and forth across it. You would be basically slowing down gravity too.

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