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What does it mean when people describe the magnet in an MRI as "100,000 times (or so) stronger than earth's magnetic field?" Certainly we couldn't repel all of the solar wind hitting earth (many times over) with one MRI machine?

by /u/halfascientist in /r/askscience

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