Fun and games (and a safety reminder) with a decommissioned MRI magnet
When a group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, learned that an MRI machine was set to be decommissioned, they did the safe and responsible thing—they tossed a bunch of magnetic objects at it to see what would happen.
While that doesn’t seem like the safe and responsible course of action—and indeed this little experiment sent objects flying with dangerous force—the scientists involved said they recorded the destruction to demonstrate the dangers inherent with MRI magnets. Check out the video below: