A few weeks ago our Physics class took a trip to MINOS, a large particle detector on in Tower, MN. The 6,000 ton detector lives a half-mile underground in the old Soudan mine. Our class spent the weeks leading up to the trip learning about Quantum Physics and exploring particle interactions.

• Pictures from MINOS Trip (10pics)

Anyway, I’m working on MINOS stuff over the summer. Our first project is to build a Hardware Database to track all the pieces and parts in the detector. More fun diving into PHP+MySQL! I can now install Apache+PHP+MySQL on any Windows XP box in less than eight minutes.