[AdmSmith]

I don't see how. This effect -- if it's real -- happens with a rotating superconductor. Are there any such objects that astronomers could observe? If so, then you've got a point.


Here you have an article about binary pulsars; two rapidly rotating highly magnetized neutron stars. http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2005-7/

and here a primer on neutron stars http://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/nstar.html

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You may be on to something, but I don't see how we would have spotted anything from here unless we had an idea what to look for.

Maybe this research will give somebody an idea.

From your link:

For example, maybe you get a warm feeling when you contemplate high-temperature superconductors, with critical temperatures around 100 K? Hah! The protons in the center of neutron stars are believed to become superconducting at 100 million K, so these are the real high-T_c champs of the universe.