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When you get mathematically close to a Black Hole, or Singularity in space, all the known laws of physics break down. All the equations come out to = infinity. Whether it is a physicist or a theoretical mathematician, this breakdown of laws such as E=MC2 gives them migraines. The presence of the Higgs Boson would fix those problems, but until its proven to exist, its all theory.

So if this is correct, and it has been found, then Physicists will be able to fully describe creation mathematically. Possibly even be able to tell us what the universe was like BEFORE the big bang. Let’s just say, its been the missing piece to the puzzle.

The experimental discovery of the Higgs boson will have nothing whatsoever to do with addressing any issues relevant to spacetime singularities. The Higgs boson is a postulated elementary particle that is part of the spectrum of particles in the so-called Standard Model (the Weinberg-Salam model). It is a so-called "scalar," "spin-zero" particle that plays an important role in the dynamics of the Standard Model, in that its presence in the spectrum enables particles that would otherwise be massless to exhibit a non-vanishing mass (at scales of energy of interaction that are less than what is called the "electroweak symmetry breaking scale," which is about 256 MeV/c^2). The monikers "spin zero" and "scalar," in this context, mean that the Higgs particle has no intrinsic, quantum mechanical angular momentum.

Spacetime singularities arise as mathematical characteristics of certain solutions to the differential equations of motion in both the general theory of relativity ("GR," which is a classical mechanical theory) and in certain proposed quantum mechanical generalizations of GR, such as string theory. These mathematical singularities in certain solutions appear due to particular aspects of both the differential equations of motion and the boundary conditions imposed on the solutions to them, and have nothing to do with the fact that there is a Higgs boson in the Standard Model. The original, default Standard Model is defined in flat spacetime, without gravitational interactions and with no graviton in the spectrum. In contrast, spacetime singularities, such as those associated with certain black hole solutions to GR, appear in theories defined on a curved spacetime with massless, spin-two particles (such as the graviton) in the particle spectrum. The presence or absence of the Higgs boson in the particle spectrum of the Standard Model is independent of the presence or absence of singular solutions to the equations of motion in general relativity.