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... Scientific areas in which laboratory simulation experiments can be carried out with current technology include properties of Alfven waves, magnetic field line reconnection, wave-particle interactions leading to chaos, and current modulation of plasma conductivity. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Space plasma physics, as the study of natural plasmas and associated technological applications, represents a vast multiscale physical domain with large variations in plasma sources, average thermal energy, flow velocities, magnetic field strength, and other underlying physical processes.
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... The cornerstones of space plasma physics are observations carried out, analyzed, and interpreted in conjunction with complementary theory and modeling. Space plasma physics has historically developed in this mode.
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