By caroline cummings of wcco. reporter: elliot tanner is just like any other 13-year-old. i like to play dungeon and dragons with friends. reporter: except for the fact he can solve this? i have an incredible passion for physics. it has been one of my favorite things to do. reporter: he is pursuing that passion at the university of minnesota, where he is studying for a bachelor s degree. keeping a 3.78 g.p.a. and doing undergraduate research. a neutrino is a fast-moving particle that will go through about a light year and hardly interact with it. reporter: wow! what we re trying to do is we re trying to detect those. reporter: when elliot graduates this week, he won t be going far. he will be back on campus in the fall for a ph.d. if elliot tanner s