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IT has long been recognised that besides carrying the fundamental unit of charge an electron is also endowed with inertia. Only recently has attention been paid to the possibility that phenomena may exist which depend on the gravitational mass1. Here we point out that strong gravitational fields, such as those encountered in collapsed stellar objects, may produce observable electromagnetic effects arising directly from the gravitational mass of electric charges.
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DAVIDSON, W., EFINGER, H. Gravity-induced electric polarisation near the Schwarzschild limit. Nature 249, 431 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249431a0
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