G-force centrifuge mounted on opposite rotating platform

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Query - does a centrifuge spinning to create X g-force, mounted on a platform that is rotating the the same rpm's the opposite direction, negate the g-force? Or does the g-force stay the same but from an outside perspective the centrifuge appears stationary?
Query - does a centrifuge spinning to create X g-force, mounted on a platform that is rotating the the same rpm's the opposite direction, negate the g-force? Or does the g-force stay the same but from an outside perspective the centrifuge appears stationary?
 
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What do you think the answer is and why? Do you know how to write the equation of motion of an object in the centrifuge as seen in a rest frame in the laboratory?

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I have only one clarifying question for the OP:
From the vantage point of an observer outside the centrifuge contraption, how fast (if at all) is the occupant rotating?
 
I have no real clue what the OP is asking about lol, not the best statement that describes accurately the situation. The best I can make of it is that we have some object that is rotating around some point in a lab, say clockwise, and the whole lab is rotating (around the same point or different point?) in an opposite direction counterclockwise.