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Neil deGrasse Tyson Returns Again

I Think You're Overthinking It

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The Nuclei Magnetic Resonance Is the Foundation of MRI

Ham kept using as a rebuttal this guy who invented the MRI machine. What no one said was the person who discovered the principle on which the MRI is based His name is Edward Purcell He was my physics professor in college. One of those nuclei in the hydrogen atom has a flip of the quantum spin orientation of the electron And it spins once every 10 million years So just mri, magnetic, not nuclear magnetic resonance Because people are afraid of the word "nuclei"

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