
Originally Posted by
SteveA
Is the Higgs field capable of keeping the speed of light constant and synchronized across diverse areas of space? If not, then we might need to add another faster than light particle to the mix as well. Though if the Higgs is responsible for observations of slower than light speed phenomenon, it could operate faster than light itself.
Something needs to operate effectively instantaneously throughout the universe and we could even find a need to have something else even pre-exist the Big-Bang.
Notice that physical processes on different scales operate at slower and slower velocities (speed of light interactions create matter, which communicated via. electromagnetic bonds that are slower than light and these create various vibrational modes in molecules that are slower still and these create acoustic properties on larger scales at slower speed etc.) as these properties are contained by events that communicate faster than their scale, in order to unite those properties into a common phenomenon.
So what unites speed of light phenomenon together in the universe? Obviously something needs to run around rather quickly to keep the place synchronized in time (and likely it or even something else would be effectively instantaineous/continual to describe the entirety of space itself, outside of alterations to things within it).
Anyway, just ideas. Thanks for the post.