The 'electrical discharge' term used in MR (various papers) is not a discharge
and is obsolete!
This is a classic case of denial at it's finest. The term "electrical discharge" is an electrical discharge, is an electrical discharge, past, present and future. Get over it!
We are not engaging in a civil conversation. You are not even interested in a two way conversation. You're only interested in cyberharrasment apparently. Your use of the term "obsolete" is apparently your way of attempting to brush a minority scientific position under the rug, at least in your mind anyway.
I have now provided you with over 14 external references on the topics of photon kinetic energy and electrical discharges in plasma, references as current as 2012. You've never read a single textbook on plasma physics, but you fancy yourself as more knowledgeable on this topic that the Russians, Dungey, Bruce, Birkeland, Alfven, Carlqvist, Peratt, the Japanese and pretty much anyone else you decide to ignore, or put words in their mouth.
What is the point of you being here other that pure harassment at this point?
You refuse to prove *external* (to yourself) references that claim electrical discharges are impossible in plasma or that photons have zero kinetic energy. You're stuck on a never ending denial-go-round that is essentially nothing more than a heavily linked personal feedback loop leading right back to your own claims! Spam, spam and more personal spam.
I am not citing myself. I am linking to my post which contains the citations to the scientific literature and the questions that you are unable to answer about electrical discharges in the literature.
You keep linking to yourself and here is the utterly irrational claim you made about a book you never read:
Electrical discharges require breakdown of a dielectric medium (as per Peratt's definition).
You personally created a "requirement" related to a dielectric breakdown which Peratt did not make. You keep insisting an *EXAMPLE* is a definition, when in fact the definition is one sentence, specifically the first one.
It's not about a breakdown of a dielectric. That's *your* claim, and nobody else made it, not Dungey, Giovanelli, Bruce, Birkeland, Alfven, Calrqvist, the Russians or the Japanese. That's your personal *nonsense*. It's part of your denial process.
At this point we are not even having a two way conversation. You are just engaging in pure cyberharassment and you don't care what *anyone* else has to say.
It's been a week now and you've yet to provide a single valid external reference to support either of the major points in contention. You've never cited an external link that claims photons have no kinetic energy as you claimed, and that photon redshift is not related to loss of photon kinetic energy because photons have no kinetic energy. You just pulled this stuff out of your back pocket!
Ditto on the claim "electrical discharges in plasma are impossible'. Ever single author I cited *blows you claim away*. None of them 'required' a dielectric breakdown, not a single one. You're not an astronomer. You're not about to read a book on plasma physics. What are you doing here RC? Be honest for a change? Are you even listening to my answers, and are you even looking for external references?
Why are you here?