...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).
> 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).