The invention itself is for pregnant women who wish to conceive with less pain.
However, I would feel concern for the people reading if you didn't scratch your head at the thumbnail or the first few seconds of the video.
When the baby comes out of his/her hiding spot into the world, there will be a lot of damage to the mother and the baby. Though, I won't lie hearing the risk of decapitation for the b*by did make me smile a little. By the way, if you are willing to support my work on this blog, please donate down below as this post could shutdown my Google Ads*ense.
Anyways, what does the physics here have to do on this website?
The answer is the concept of centripetal force, which is very similar. Spinning an object- particularly a donut- in space can generate the equivalent of 1G.
This is unlike the 10G shown in the video which is enough to kill the b*by and give a broken pelvis to the mother. The formulas below can be used to calculate the force generated by the spinning motion, in Newtons:
Where:
- F is the force (in Newtons).
- m is the mass of the object (in this case, the baby).
- v is the linear velocity.
- r is the radius (the distance from the center of the spinning table to the baby).
- ω is the angular velocity (how fast the table is rotating).
Centripetal Force Analyzer
I recommend that you use angular velocity for the calculation.
Linear Velocity (): If the baby flew off the table in a straight line, how fast would they hit the wall? (Measured in ).
Angular Velocity (): How many full spins is the table doing every minute? (Usually measured in or ).
The video by IDAT says that a baby weighing 4 - 10 kg would leave the woman at 40 - 100 kg. Is that correct? Im not exactly sure how fast the baby would be born, but:
Weight: Approximately 3.5 kg (7.7 lbs).
The Rotation Speed: Alex's centrifuge was spinning at roughly 120 to 150 RPM (Rotations Per Minute) at the moment of "birth."
The Radius: The manikin was positioned approximately 1 meter from the center of the spinning table.
If we use or the calculator above:
v = 12.57 1 = 12.57 m/s is the speed the baby would have left the w*mb.
Thats crazy because it translates 45 km/h or 28mph. And the creator of this device pictured below:
Alex Apollonov
It's actually a good thing this man sacrificed this manikin and the manikin baby because it proves that centripetal force does indeed do something.
And by that same vein of thinking, a space station shaped like a donut with a radius of 10m and a requirement of 1G would have to spin at 9.45 RPM.

