Back in 1954, a paper [2] by Bondi and Gold was to pick up on a much older question and raise a new one that would trigger another long debate. The old question had been around since the beginning of the twentieth century, when Born first raised it [1] and others followed suit. This was the question of whether a uniformly accelerated charge (in flat spacetime) would radiate electromagnetic energy. The new question arose from the claim by Bondi and Gold that (in the context of general relativity now) a static charge in a static gravitational field cannot radiate energy. If this were the case, then a particular version of the equivalence principle would thereby be contradicted.