Accelerating Charges: Electron on Earth & Light Emission

[cragar]

If standing on Earth and being accelerated by a rocket out in space at g are the same thing, Or at least have the same effects. And if accelerating charges emit light then would an electron sitting on Earth emit light? But I don't see how this is possible because where would the energy come from.

 

[cosmik debris]

There has been another thread on this recently. This is not an easy question to answer. In General Relativity an object in free fall is not accelerating but in Newtonian mechanics it is. Conversely an object sitting on the surface of the Earth is accelerating in GR but not in NM. The charge sitting on the Earth is not seen to radiate, why?

Try this for starters:

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath528/kmath528.htm