I agree that the Higgs mechanism feels like a hack. Something in my intuition raises a flag. Even more so when I was learning about theoretical particles called "gravitons" back in grade school. It's always seemed forced (no pun intended) the way many scientists shoehorn gravity in with the other three forces (weak strong and EM), which share much more in common with each other than with gravity. One of these things is not like the other...
Likewise, and related, dark matter/energy is a total hack. It's a shortcut contrived to sweep something we don't fully understand under the rug.
The idea of gravity as an emergent force, related to inertia, has been more appealing:
Likewise, and related, dark matter/energy is a total hack. It's a shortcut contrived to sweep something we don't fully understand under the rug.
The idea of gravity as an emergent force, related to inertia, has been more appealing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html?pag....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity