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UW physicist Wick Haxton is in a competition worthy of reality TV--if the average American actually cared about science, that is. He is competing with three other teams in various US locations to be chosen as the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant for over half a billion dollars to build and run a laboratory buried deep under Stevens Pass to study neutrinos. (The further underground, the less the sun's rays interfere with techniques used to study these mysterious little subatomic particles that many physicists believe are the key to understanding not only the Big Bang, but other elusive phenomena like supernovae and dark matter.)