China Builds Wild Gravity Machine
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Key Points:
- China has developed CHIEF1900, a hypergravity machine capable of generating forces nearly 1,900 times stronger than Earth's gravity, surpassing the previous record holder CHIEF1300 by a significant margin.
- Located at Zhejiang University's Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility, the machine enables researchers to study the effects of extreme forces on materials, plants, cells, and structures under simulated catastrophic conditions.
- CHIEF1900 can replicate scenarios such as dam failures and earthquakes by spinning scale models at high G-forces, and is also useful for analyzing resonance frequencies in infrastructure and long-term pollutant seepage in soils.
- The centrifuge generates immense heat at high speeds, which is managed by an innovative vacuum
