The Electrostatic Charge Is a Phenomenon Similar to Gravity

In Einstein's elevator thought experiment, he imagined a person in a free-falling elevator. If they weren't able to see the Earth approaching ever closer, they would think they were in deep space and not accelerating. Similarly, if the elevator were to accelerate in deep space at 1 g, they may think the elevator is stationary at Earth's surface.

This PBS Spacetime episode and this Science Asylum episode explain the phenomenon of space-time warping due to mass and its effect on nearby objects. I posit that we can broaden both the thought experiment and explanations of the videos to incorporate the electrostatic force.

In deep space, a negative charge will accelerate toward a positive charge in a "free fall", i.e. neither will feel a force while accelerating toward each other. If you put an electrically neutral and permeable membrane in front of the negative charge to hold it back, it would feel the force of the membrane pushing back on it, like a pseudo-gravitational force.

If we think of the charge free fall experiment as equivalent to the gravity free fall thought experiment and can draw all the same conclusions that have come since, electric charges warp space-time. It's no wonder that Coulomb's Law and Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation are so similar; they describe the same space-time warping effect.

The only difference is that objects with the same "mass-charge" are attracted to each other whereas objects with opposite electric charges are attracted. Two masses will fall toward each other because each slows time for the other at closer distances. Time must actually speed up for two similarly-charged electric particles at closer distances. Does this indicate that oppositely-charged particles are actually similarly-charged particles that are traveling in opposite directions through time?

Well, that's where my understanding of General Relativity starts to falter. Hopefully someone else can pick up where I left off. Or better yet, explain where I screwed up because that is vastly more likely than me discovering a new interpretation of physics.

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