Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
The position in my paper is that virtual photons can not carry
gravimagnetic charge. Therefore, electric fields, i.e. near field
effects, are readily transmitted from a black hole, and readily
transmitted two ways across the event horizon. This means that black
holes can exhibit charge. This is not of any practical consequence
except maybe when the size of the black hole is very small, as for
those generated in the Large Hadron Collider. Large black holes will
quickly neutralize any large net charge by creation of charge from
the vacuum or by attraction of charged particles from space. What is
really important here about the virtual photon's lack of
gravitational charge is that black holes can exhibit magnetic
fields. This would be utterly impossible if either (a) GR effects
are due to space warping or (2) virtual photons carried gravitational
mass. This, then, provides a means of comparing gravimagnetic
theory to that of GR. It should be possible, through spectral
analysis, to see if polar jets from and near black holes are in a
strong magnetic field, one too strong to be accounted for using
accretion mass. Such a test should thus be made using a black hole
with minimal accretion. It is notable that no polar jets should be
present at all (under GR) if there is no accretion disk. The
presence of polar jets without an accretion disk also eliminates GR
as a possibility, because there is no feasible source for the polar
jet matter.
