MRI Cryptic Crossword

Announcing—a MRI puzzle for Christmas 2007… a MRI Physics Cryptic Crossword.

First prize is a 20q game, which is an incredible little device which can guess what you’re thinking, by asking twenty apparently inane questions like “Is it larger than a duck?”.

Submit your answers to crossword@revisemri.com. Go for it!  Competition ended.
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Building Blochs

Felix Bloch

Nobel Prize in Physics lecture, 11th December 1952:

“To follow the analogue of mechanical resonance we must now come back to relaxation, which can be seen to act like a friction, and which counteracts the tilt produced by the alternating field.”

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