I have just watched a video by Professor Brian Cox. In it he describes the proposed Higgs field. If it exists, it is thought that this field permeates all space among other attributes.
When I heard this, it struck a familiar chord. It sounded almost identicle to the description of the aether...
If the Higgs field is responsible for embuing particles with mass, and mass is responsible for gravity, is it possible that the Higgs field will provide the missing link between general relativity and quantum mechanics ie could the Higgs field be the basis of a quantum theory of gravity?