Evangelidis, Basil (2023) Impacts, symmetries and decisions: the quest for habitable worlds. [Preprint]

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There is a vast amount of research data from space exploration on the topics of impacts, symmetries, habitable zone, chemical compositions, atmosphere, climate and geology. The related facts, sayings and relations need to be evaluated by a theory of decision based on strategies of reflection on empirical research and cooperation. Hundreds of technological applications, appropriate inventions and innovations are being introduced for the implementation of the objective to find habitable worlds. A logic of space science and technology is being, therefore, continuously tested through focusing on efficiency, computability, polyvalence, feedback control etc. This effort needs also to be assisted by a reevaluation of conceptual and mathematical frameworks, with the adoption of new physical definitions and new units of measurement.
An example of the requirement for conceptual reevaluation is the increasing significance of astrobiology, on account of the quest for water, life and habitable planets. Hereby philosophy of physics meets the philosophy of biology, so far as the concepts of life and non-life could plausibly be reconsidered by space exploration, while ethical problems on the value of space medicine, health and information arise, as well.
An example of the requirement for reflection on mathematical frameworks is the task for an efficient motion of spacecraft to the interstellar medium, to Proxima Centauri b and other exoplanets. Such a task should require the adoption of new units of measurement, for instance, of the magnitude of ~6.000 km/s (30 times faster than the Parker Solar Probe), being thus better comparable to the speed of light (since ~6.000 km/s equals to 1/50 or 2% of the speed of light).
Moreover, a crucial challenge to reflection is the role of the magnetosphere, the magnetic fields and dynamos for the development and the motion of the planets of our solar system and exoplanets. A successful procedure to explaining the contribution of the magnetic field to planetary dynamics may help us answer serious scientific questions and probably may contribute to the discovery of a new unified physical theory of everything.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Evangelidis, Basil vasilis.evangelidis@gmail.com 0000-0002-3154-4495
Keywords:	habitability, solar system, satellites, ocean worlds, ice giants, gas giants, symmetry
Subjects:	General Issues > Data Specific Sciences > Physics > Astrophysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Decision Theory
Depositing User:	Dr. Basil Evangelidis
Date Deposited:	18 Apr 2024 06:36
Last Modified:	18 Apr 2024 06:36
Item ID:	23282
Official URL:	https://smuk23.dpg-tagungen.de/
Subjects:	General Issues > Data Specific Sciences > Physics > Astrophysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Decision Theory
Date:	March 2023
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23282

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