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China completes most powerful hypergravity centrifuge (interestingengineering.com)

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[–] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For some reason the 'article' mentions compressing space and time multiple times. Does it really though? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I can't imagine large centrifugal forces inducing any relativistic effects.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only if it goes at a statistically significant % of the speed of light, I think. Artificial "gravity" it creates should not have any relativistic effects, AFAIK. These only show up at proximity to large masses (real gravity).

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

And even 1900x Earth masses would have a time interval of 0.9999986774:1