ABSTRACT:
The big news from particle physics in 2012 was the discovery at the CERN Large Hadron Collider of a new particle with many properties of the long-sought Higgs Boson. The Higgs Boson had been predicted by the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, so, potentially, this discovery fills a recognized gap in our understanding. But there are more mysteries about weak interactions and physics at the 100 GeV - 1 TeV mass scale. About these, the LHC has also given us much information, but all of it negative, exclusions of previously possible solutions. In this lecture, I will give my best understanding of where we are in the search for new particles and forces related to the weak interaction. I will review the questions we are asking about physics in the hundred GeV region. I will discuss the power and also the difficulties of LHC measurements. There are many alternatives for the route forward. I will discuss three of these and their implications for the future of particle physics.