This was first proposed in a couple of fictional stories from some popular sci-fi magazines in the 1950s and 60s. Some guy travels to the Moon by neutralizing the electrostatic charge of his rocket which makes it easily leave the Earth orbit but he makes a mistake and forgetting that halfway between the Earth and the Moon that charges are going to be neutral and he'll be stuck between the two without a regular rocket to push him on to the moon.
And then in the electric universe YouTube series that was electro a lecture and by the guy who described gravity as Atoms with shifted nucleuses as is described here
This was first proposed in a couple of fictional stories from some popular sci-fi magazines in the 1950s and 60s. Some guy travels to the Moon by neutralizing the electrostatic charge of his rocket which makes it easily leave the Earth orbit but he makes a mistake and forgetting that halfway between the Earth and the Moon that charges are going to be neutral and he'll be stuck between the two without a regular rocket to push him on to the moon.
And then in the electric universe YouTube series that was electro a lecture and by the guy who described gravity as Atoms with shifted nucleuses as is described here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkWiBxWieQU
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