On Apr 16, 7:16 am, Batroc Z. Leaper <hotf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> It's also not obvious to me that not exhibiting electrical charge is the
> same as violating conservation of charge. The event horizon could be
> analogous to a Faraday cage. Granted, that's a pretty loose analogy,
> but you get the idea. The charge could be there, it just couldn't
> interact with anything outside the event horizon.
If you put electric charge inside a Faraday cage, it appears to an
outside observer that the cage has charge. The observer will not be
able to tell any details of the charge other than its sign and
magnitude, but the charge is still observable to the outside world.
Luke
