1,900 times Earth's gravity: China to finish construction of world's most powerful centrifuge already this year

China has created the most powerful centrifuge in the world. This newest machine is 1,900 times stronger than the Earth's gravity.

According to scientists, the creation of this centrifuge will improve their understanding of events such as mountain rises or disasters such as dam collapses. Once the Centrifuge Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experimental Facility (CHIEF) is fully operational, it will become a multidisciplinary research platform with the world's largest centrifuge to help solve complex engineering problems, SouthChinaMorningPost reports.

According to the government of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China, where the facility is located, the preliminary completion of the project will take place this year and will mark an important milestone in hypergravity research.

According to experts, CHIEF consists of three main hypergravity centrifuges - a machine that spins a container very quickly so that heavier liquids and solids are forced to the outer edges or bottom - and 18 on-board devices.

The force of the Earth's gravity, called standard gravity, is expressed as 1 g (unit of gravity), and anything greater than 1 g is called hypergravity, scientists explain.

When an astronaut returns to Earth in a spacecraft, he is subjected to 4 g of hypergravity, which is four times his body weight.

Hypergravity centrifuges are considered a revolutionary research tool because of their ability to create extreme physical conditions that do not exist in the everyday environment.

Chen Yunmin, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that such facilities can "compress" time and space, allowing for the study of many complex physics problems and serve a wide range of engineering purposes.

The current leading hypergravity facility was developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and has a capacity of about 1200 gt (g-force acceleration per ton). The one under construction in Hangzhou will have a total capacity of 1900 gt.

The new project has six chambers for hypergravity experiments, each designed for a specific area, slope and dam engineering, seismic geotechnics, deep-sea exploration, deep-earth studies, geological processes, and materials processing.

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