[playorizaya]

Nobody said that gravity is a literal force vector pushing objects, and if you did (a la aether) the theory would be discarded, just like the Standard Model will be discarded when people realize the universe is not made of balls.

Everybody knows what is meant by "model" and "theory" - there is no need to be so condescending for no reason.

The Standard Model asserts that the world is made of some number of basic "building blocks" and yet has had considerable trouble proving it thus far.

Insofar that it is a model of real, non-fictional physics, and not a thought experiment but an actual attempt at describing the universe in terms of its parts - it's obviously incorrect.

And Higgs DID NOT live up to providing an explanation of where mass comes from. That was the whole point, it was "the god particle" because it was supposed to complete the Standard Model by providing a mechanism for mass. It didn't do that. We still don't know.