What is mass and why do some forces attract matter?

Science can account for the strengths of fields, where they go and how they interract. Ones like magnetic and electric fields. Maxwell, Faraday, many others figured these out and crafted the formulae that can be used to calculate all sort of neat things about them.

But, no one has a complete explanation for how a field can, seemingly, violate the laws of conservation of momentum and so on.

How does a magnetic field pull other magnetic fields of the right polarity toward itself? How does gravity work?

Warping space begs the question, what is the fabric that is being warped? The fact the Michelson-Morley experiments did not find any such fabric doesn't seem to bother anyone.

Force carrying photons for magnetic and electric fields begs the question, how do the photons work? The fact these photons have never been observed never seems to bother anyone.

What if, just as with the hugely anthropicly influenced world of quantum physics, we are simply looking in the wrong spot?

What I am postulating is simpler.

Matter and energy can neither be created or destroyed, simply transformed. That's a given.

All the particles we see today are the result of interactions with other particles going all the way back to the "big whump" (I'll explain my thoughts on the "big bang" later).

And, contrary to what some might think, particles can, indeed, be changed into other particles by exchanging something when they interact.

Particles, in my opinion, are a form of wavelet phenomenon. By this, I mean they are composed not so much by smaller particles, but by particle like aspects of the same thing.

Call them strings if you wish and these "aspects" of mine different vibrational frequencies and modes on those strings.. but Quarks and all the other aspects of a particle are all the same thing seen from different perspectives. The charge, spin and more, are all exchangeable and sometimes mutually exclusive sets of this basic substance.

Waves can interact with each other with very particle like behaviour if they are assembled into a soliton. Anyone who has seen soliton waves in a bay or harbor is seeing just this. A wave of water than can bounce off other waves as if it were a beach ball. Yes, soliton waves in water can, if created using the right combination of frequencies from underwater speakers (natural versions exist, but speakers are easier to control) look like round pillars, squares, walls and other shapes. A tidal bore is a perfect example.

So, by adding these wavelets to one another we can "assemble" a "particle". Like a soliton wave, the right combination is needed to remain coherent. If some wavelet is unstable, the "particle" can decay and break up into other semi stable "particles".

Figure out the rules for these wavelets and how they interact and the universe is one substance seen from a myriad of different perspectives and aspects.

What we perceive as a "particle" is only the most probable location for the effects that particle has on its surroundings. And, all "particles" have "fields" that extend to the edge of the universe.

Given that concept, and the fact the universe is one (one place with the same origin point), then all particles, all aspects, extend to that same edge. It's only the most probable loci of the particles we are perceiving that makes the universe look the way it does and not as the same single manifold particle it really is.

Since all particles began at the beginning and extended to the edge of the singularity that was the beginning, all children of those particles also extend to that same edge and are all still connected.

Gravity, mass, inertia.. these are all consequences of that origin and connectedness.

My prediction is that they will indeed find a larger realm of particle masses in the LHC, but not the Higgs Boson.

If my postulate has even the germ of a real idea in it, they will, instead, find another set of larger particles (more mass, greater energy) that will match the same exponential jumps of the earlier sets. One will probably be close to what the Higgs Boson should be, but the anomaly will be brushed aside. I hope they keep looking at higher energy levels.