Will a change in reference frame produce light?

The acceleration that you plug into the Larmor formula to calculate the radiation is the proper acceleration.

It is certainly true that if you start spinning then in your frame the charge is circling you and therefore it is accelerating towards you. However this is what we call a coordinate acceleration i.e. the velocity changes in time when measured using your coordinates. The acceleration you measure is not because the particle is accelerating, it is because your coordinates are accelerating. If you calculate the proper acceleration of the charge, using your rotating coordinates, then you'll find the proper acceleration comes out zero and hence the charge won't radiate.


No, in your reference frame the laws of physics are not valid because it is not inertial. The charge will not radiate.