The 1/r³ antigravity of a simple charge

[Dejan Corovic]

I've frequently suggested to Jim that we interview guests, so we could really get the skinny from the top experts in each field, but he's been resistant to the idea. I'll keep working on him though, because I think it would a lot of fun and very illuminating.

Neutron stars and black holes aren't expected to possess a significant electrical field, because it takes so little energy to steal charges from nearby matter (i.e., the ionization energy). So if these kind of conditions are going to be explored, they'll have to be technologically generated.

I think illusive Papapetrou's work, that @waitedavid137 mentioned is the seminal work for this field. He worked in UK as a physicist and in Germany. So I suspect that his paper lays undigitised in some library here. I'll try to dig it up in the next few weeks.