LHC's First Act: Higgs Found, Other Weird Physics Still at Large

LHC's First Act: Higgs Found, Other Weird Physics Still at Large: After a spectacular first act, the Large Hadron Collider is taking an intermission break, shutting down on Feb. 11 for two years of construction and upgrades. The biggest discovery thus far has been the Higgs boson but the LHC could have turned up exotic phenomena and new physics. In this gallery, we will take a look at some of these hoped for events and what they might have meant for science had they been found.