Higg's boson

So now we have it the last piece of the jigsaw to confirm the standard model of how our universe operates. Whilst many physicists are celebrating, I cannot understand what they are getting worked up about. Does the final piece of the jigsaw only complete an imaginary picture? We have leptons, quarks, fermions and bosons. The Higg's boson is the sub-atomic particle that confers mass to particles such as protons. So now we know where mass and matter come from. But what conferred the Higg's boson its mass? We do not have an answer.

I have difficulty with the big bang theory and I do not believe that this is the final answer to how the universe was created. How could it be possible that  all the matter and energy that we now observe could have originated from a single point some 13.6 billion years ago. How do we know what happened at that time we have no means of observing what happened? We can only infer how the process started and continued afterwards. Of course this is no argument for the existence of a God.

There is also the conjecture about inflation where the vacuum of space was supposed to have expand for some brief seconds faster than the speed of light. How do we know that this actually happened?

I can understand and believe Newton's Laws of motion as they can be proved by direct observation.

I can also completely accept Darwin's Theory of evolution because the theory can be proven from observation and examination of the fossil record.

Newton and Darwin's theories have direct and powerful meaning.

I had difficulty understanding Einstein's General and Special theories of relativity but have to accept their validity because they have been proven by observation albeit by  indirect means using light and radio telescopes.

Like most other people I simply cannot understand quantum theory. How can an electron be in two places at once? All this is counter-intuitive. I can, however, accept Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, where the observer can somehow affect the observed at an atomic level and to such an extent that we cannot identify the exact location of an electron. Quantum mechanics has been used to good effect at an atomic level so there must be some truth in the theory.

The validity of the standard model relies upon very indirect methods of observation and statistical models to prove the existence of sub-atomic particles such as the Neutrino and the Higg's boson. But how do we know that the results of collisions in the Large Hadron Collider really represent conditions at the beginning of the big bang?

In some respects the big bang theory is no more believable, for me, than the steady state theory; so come back Fred Hoyle all is forgiven.