My apologies for failing to pass along this story. Scientists might be closer to understanding dark matter, the nature of the universe and the origins of the Big Bang thanks to results from experiments conducted at the bottom of one of the Iron Range’s oldest and deepest underground mines. A collaborative effort including physicists from the University of Minnesota has been working in the old mine shafts for several years.
It seems fitting that the region responsible for the core fuel of the industrial revolution, that might (controversially) mine the elements needed for the Information Age, may yet provide the kind of understanding we’d need for interstellar travel and a higher order of physics. I keep telling people that the Iron Range ain’t exactly sunshine and lollipops, but it is far more interesting and important than meets the eye. Read more about this theory, with jokes, in my book.
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