Chinese scientists are building a super-powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine worth over $ 126 million.
According to the South China Morning Post, this tomograph will be capable of the world's highest quality scanning of the human body, a thousand times superior to all other tomographs in the world.
With its help, Chinese scientists want to study in detail the human brain and the work of chemical elements in it. And also find cures for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and maybe even see evidence of the existence of the soul.
At least one of the researchers working on the project hopes so.
Another scientist agrees that the world has never seen anything like it.
People who believe in the soul claim that the soul is "what distinguishes a person from all other living beings." However, scientific evidence for the existence of the soul has never been found.
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Conventional tomograph.
The project is being led by the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology in southern China and is only slightly less than the cost of the world's most powerful radio telescope, FAST, at $ 185 million. Which, by the way, is also in China.
The device is still under construction, but scientists are already speculating that they will see how chemicals such as sodium, phosphorus and potassium work in the human body. These elements are critical to the functioning of the brain and are involved in the passage of impulses and messages through various neurons.
Meanwhile, Professor He Rongjiao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing is skeptical: