Amazing stuff! Can the West keep up with China?
"China has eclipsed its own – and the US – record, building a monster underground hypergravity centrifuge that can model scenarios with 1,900 times the real-world gravitational force of Earth, bending space and time with unprecedented power.
Built by Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group as part of China's Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF), CHIEF1900 will soon function at 1,900 g-tonnes, surpassing the previously most powerful centrifuge the CHIEF1300. ...
The hypergravity facility is reported to have cost around US$285 million to build and is expected to be a beacon of international research, with the Chinese team inviting scientists from around the world to use the technology. ..."
China built a 1,900x gravity machine (Source)
This is the older CHIEF1300 centrifuge
Schematic of a geotechnical centrifuge (the older centrifuge, source)
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