Lava lamp meets centrifuge

Neil Fraser examined how a lava lamp behaves while accelerating (which is equivalent, so they say in a low chuckle, to being subject to higher gravity): “Would a Lava Lamp work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter? Would the wax still rise to the surface? Would the blobs be smaller and faster? With broad disagreement on the answers, I built a large centrifuge to find out.” (Thanks to investigator Lisa Wilcox for bringing this to our attention.) Fraser’s video: