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Watching Human Universe, Brian Cox said, "If you decreased the speed of light by just a few percent, our universe would have no carbon in it. Increase it by that same amount, and our universe would have no oxygen." Why would the speed of light even affect the elemental composition of the universe?

by /u/graaahh in /r/askscience

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