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Rothiemurchus
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There are two protons in the gravitational field of the Earth, one directly above the other.They experience the electric force through exchange of virtual photons.A virtual photon traveling vertically upwards from the lower proton towards the higher proton would be redshifted and so exert a smaller force on the higher proton than it would if there was no gravitational field present.
A virtual photon traveling vertically downwards towards the lower proton would be blueshifted and exert a bigger force on the lower proton than it would if there was no gravitational field present.
Has gravity given the higher proton a bigger effective charge (since the magnitude of a charge can be determined by the force it exerts on other charges)
and the lower proton a smaller effective charge.The sum of the charges would still be the same so we could say that charge is conserved still.
A virtual photon traveling vertically downwards towards the lower proton would be blueshifted and exert a bigger force on the lower proton than it would if there was no gravitational field present.
Has gravity given the higher proton a bigger effective charge (since the magnitude of a charge can be determined by the force it exerts on other charges)
and the lower proton a smaller effective charge.The sum of the charges would still be the same so we could say that charge is conserved still.