> At a million g's, I'm a liquid Not really. You'll disintegrate in strange ways based on the relative density of your constituent parts. <edit>: Another tho

> At a million g's, I'm a liquid Not really. You'll disintegrate in strange ways based on the relative density of your constituent parts. <edit>: Another thought is that if you laid on a bed for 13 years (the time it took for a drop of pitch to form) without moving --ignoring tissue decay and other factors-- you'd probably "flow" just as you might in a high gravity environment. Gravity, like rust, never sleeps. </edit> Yet, unless a domain expert says otherwise, I think your point is absolutely valid. However, pitch might just be the kind of substance that would be fine at a million g's. I don't know. That's the reason for my request for comment from someone with centrifuge experience. At a million g's a lot of seemingly strange things can happen. However, perhaps 100, 1000 or 10,000 g's is reasonable. I used the million g example as an illustration of the attainable extreme in response to a comment that spoke about 6 or 7 g's. Clearly we can do better, far better. In consultation with a domain expert (Chemist?) I would design the experiment to give results in somewhere between a day and a month. Faster if possible. The criteria would be to choose an acceleration that does not fundamentally change the nature of the substance under test. All we want to do is promote faster flow.