Hi there,
I'm nowhere near an educated Physicist, but I have a healthy interest in the subject.
So according to M-theory, we're all living on a membrane, next to a lot of other membranes, and nothing can escape this membrane, except Gravitons, which explains why gravity as a force is much weaker than the 3 other forces.
Then I've also read that the Higgs boson may be the elementary particle that gives mass to all other particles (quarks and leptons) and the W and Z bosons, and that there is, hypothetically, a Higgs field in which our Universe (and if there are any, all other universes) is completely submerged.
String theory says that gravitons are closed strings without loose ends, which enables them to "leak out" of our universe into others, and that all other elementary particles are strings as well.
The Higgs boson is supposed to be an elementary particle too, which makes it a string as well.
So my question is: What is the relation between a graviton and the Higgs boson? Are they two names for the same thing? Or is something else going on?