Hangzhou’s Underground Hypergravity Lab Accelerates Decades of Time into Days
Deep beneath Hangzhou, Zhejiang University’s CHIEF1900 hypergravity centrifuge spins models in a 230-square-meter chamber to 1,900 g-tonnes, accelerating slow geological and infrastructure processes from centuries to days. The facility supports rapid testing of dams, deep-sea platforms, railway ground responses, and pollutant migration, using advanced cooling to manage heat, and is envisioned as a global shared research platform with multiple cabins.