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What if the speed of light were slower?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Internet Would Be Slower if the Speed of Light Was Slower

The internet would be slower if the speed of light was slower. Chemical reactions in your brain depend on the electrominetic force, right? Ye, that's true. Those bonds would have a different strength. We all want optical fibre the current speed. There is no minimum speed of light that would hold the universe together. It could literally be like point zero, zero,zero, zero, zero,. Zero, zero, one meters per second and you could still have a universe. Yes, in ways hat are probably impossible to predict. So hey, let's give it a try and find out now.

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