Underground Mine Tour

At 3:30 pm on Wednesday, we will head for the Soudan Mine to tour the High Energy Physics Experiment located more than a half mile underground. Weather is always nice down there. A steady 40+ degrees. You will don hardhats (provided) and ride the cage down. You will be amazed at the well-appointed labs where detectors are poised to collect neutrinos that will be fired through the arc of the earth from Fermi Labs near Chicago.

Find out for yourself, whether neutrinos really oscillate and where is all that cold, dark matter that went missing after the big bang.

Blasters will marvel at the rooms that have been opened. Some of the work done by Lake Superior Chapter members.

This tour is a bargain at $10 and is scheduled so that participants of any of the Certificate classes can attend and be back for the reception on Wednesday evening.