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1,900 times Earth’s gravity: China activates world’s most advanced hypergravity facility


China activates CHIEF, the world's largest hypergravity facility, to advance science with forces thousands of times stronger than Earth's gravity.

As an indispensable experimentation device, it will provide an advanced experiment platform and offer immense support for the development and verification of major engineering technologies as well as research into cutting-edge matter-related sciences,” said Hangzhou’s government, in a statement earlier. These centrifuges, machines designed to spin containers rapidly, force heavier materials to the edges or bottom by creating hypergravity conditions, as reported by the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Led by Chen Yunmin, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the facility aims to simulate extreme conditions to tackle complex physics problems and support diverse engineering applications.

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