I just cant wrap my head around this search for the higgs boson and for that matter the graviton. It makes absolutely no sense. If mass warps spacetime, then that warping is the cause of the effect we call gravity, right? Why do we need force particles in this instance. Obviously Im just a casual reader but maybe you can explain. As for the Higgs, I understand the idea that we dont understand precisely where mass originates, as Brian Cox says, "what make stuff, stuff?" But again I just have a gut feeling that they arent going to find anything, I read somewhere that the higgs was essential to a complete pic of the standard model, why?