I used to park in the car park near this research facility and was always happy to see the signs warning about high magnetic fields. The unit for magnetic field strength is the Tesla. I suppose these days younger students will think it's named after the cars. Teslas always seemed like a mis-sized unit. So one of the strongest magnets there is has reached 11.7 Teslas. It's like capacitance in that most values you come across are milli and micro.
