(replying to self - sorry) > If there were no Higgs particles anywhere ...which is counterfactual, if you mean "anywhere in spacetime", because there were a l

(replying to self - sorry) > If there were no Higgs particles anywhere ...which is counterfactual, if you mean "anywhere in spacetime", because there were a lot of Higgs particles, at the very beginning; and those particles exist in spacetime. If there are no Higgs particles in spacetime, that's a different Universe. I guess (/me not a physicist).