China Builds Wild Gravity Machine
Victor Tangermann
created: Jan. 10, 2026, 2 p.m. | updated: Jan. 20, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
China has unveiled an extremely powerful “hypergravity machine” that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth’s regular gravity.
It can effectively compress space and time, allowing researchers to recreate the conditions during catastrophic events, from dam failures to earthquakes.
For instance, it can analyze the structural stability of an almost 1,000-feet-tall dam by spinning a ten-foot model at 100 Gs, meaning 100 times the Earth’s regular gravity.
China Debuts World's Mightiest Centrifuge, Unleashing Ultra-Intense GravityThe machine officially dethroned its predecessor, CHIEF1300, which became the world’s most powerful centrifuge a mere four months ago.
It can generate 1,900 g-tonnes of force, or 1,900 times the Earth’s gravity.
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