First-principles physics of cusp/polar cap thermospheric disturbances

Physics of Life from First Principles

Received 25 January 2007, Accepted 15 May 2007, Published 20 December 2007 Abstract: The objective of this work is to extend the First Principles of Newtonian mechanics to include modeling of behavior of Livings. One of the most fundamental problems associated with modeling life is to understand a mechanism of progressive evolution of complexity typical for living systems. It has been recently ...

Force-field Tailoring: First-principles Derivation of Wall Formation Physics

Long-term human habitation in space requires the ability to use extraterrestrial materials to build massive radiation-shielded artificial-gravity stations. The technology of Tailored Force Fields promises to enable formation of desired shapes from multidisperse construction material in microgravity. Briefly, this technology is based on the flight test result that solid particles placed in a res...

Fairness and Physics – observing first principles in global climate policy

Physics and Leibnizs Principles

Leibniz’s principles made for an elegant and coherent philosophy. In part metaphysical, in part methodological, they addressed fundamental questions in the treatment of symmetry, in the relationship of physics to mathematics, in logic that are if anything even more pressing today than they were in Leibniz’s time. As I shall read them, they also expressed a distinctive and uncompromising form of...

Alfvén waves as a solar-interplanetary driver of the thermospheric disturbances

Alfvén waves have been proposed as an important mechanism for the heating of the Sun's outer atmosphere and the acceleration of solar wind, but they are generally believed to have no significant impact on the Earth's upper atmosphere under quiet geomagnetic conditions due to their highly fluctuating nature of interplanetary magnetic field (i.e., intermittent southward magnetic field component)....