KIFIS
Now that IS an interesting question.
Is this chemistry v metaphysics?
My memory, or "bunch of chemicals" tells me there is research on the "speed" of chemical reactions.
Do they, the chemical reactions, work at a quantum level as well as the atomic or molecular. If so, then there is evidence that suggests that all matter is part of a infinitely large fabric with instantaneous comms across "it".
Light may well have to take a back seat as just another electromagnetic phenomena to whatever "it" is. The latest research on the Big Bang suggests that the "speed" of light was different then to now and we may have to rethink our perception of what we call "age".
Now I need to go have a Bex, a cuppa tea and a good lie down.
As Obi Wan would tell us, "the answer is there for us to see, we must only know how to look"