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Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos
of plasma processes in the universe.4 As the chapters that follow demonstrate, there is a wide range of work that can now be used for continuing the evolution toward a closer relationship between space plasma physics and plasma astrophysics.
NOTES
1.
Louis J. Lanzerotti, Charles F. Kennel, and E.N. Parker, eds., Solar System Plasma Processes, p. 378, North-Holland, New York, 1979.
2.
R. Feynman, Lectures, Volume II, p. 41-12, Addison-Wesley, Boston, Mass., 1970.
3.
On Lord Kelvin’s skepticism and Herschel’s enthusiasm, see E.W. Cliver, Solar activity and geomagnetic storms: The first 40 years, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 75(49), 569, 574-575, December 6, 1994; and Solar activity and geomagnetic storms: The corpuscular hypothesis, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 75(52), 609, 612-613, December 27, 1994.
4.
On the intersection between space physics and plasma astrophysics, see also the chapter titled “Connections Between Solar and Space Physics and Other Disciplines” in the recent NRC report The Sun to the Earth—and Beyond: A Decadal Research Strategy in Solar and Space Physics, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2003.
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