David Kaplan explains how a curious signal in the Large Hadron Collider's latest data could upset the Standard Model of physics — or mean nothing at all. QUANTA MAGAZINE Website: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuantaNews Twitter: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter: http://eepurl.com/6FnWj. David Kaplan is a theoretical particle physicist at Johns Hopkins University and a producer of the award-winning documentary Particle Fever. Filming by Tom Hurwitz and Richard Fleming. Editing by Lisa Iaboni. Other graphics and images from CERN . Music by Podington Bear. Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent publication launched by the Simons Foundation.