It is indeed one of the reasons the LHC at CERN was built:
to find the Higgs boson.
The Newtonian idea is that for
some reason (no one knows) all masses exert a pulling force on each other, for every
mass in the universe.
The Einsteinian idea is that space is
distorted by a mass. You have surely seen the model of a flat, stretched, infinitely,
endlessly elastic rubber sheet with a massive sphere at its center. Put a very small but
massive sphere in the center. A neutron star. Increase the mass but make it much smaller
(and denser). The dent in the rubber is very narrow and deep. For a black hole the mass
can be finite (measurable) but the depth of the dent is infinite. This is a black hole
gravity well. Try now to imagine the same situation but in 3D.
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