Very interesting. Would something happen to the electromagnetic force and its capacity to sustain life if the speed of light was much lower?
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I do—c is determined by α, which also determines how strong the EM force is. That would change chemistry a lot
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that's fair.. i suppose i wasn't trying to go to the relative strengths of the fundamental constants.. i was thinking about it in terms of just EM + gravity being the only forces in the universe and analyzing that
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Not a physicist so you probably know best, but wouldn’t the radii of the orbits of hydrogen atoms change? I seem to remember they’re proportional to the vacuum permittivity.
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indeed the forces would change numerically, but qualitatively, there would be no difference i believe. what's most important is that there *exists* a maximum speed, not what it "is" since in every case we would measure all speeds relative to that one
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