Abstract
As already noted, solar-terrestrial physics as a whole has already gone far beyond the initial understanding of this term, and the fields of its research are closely intertwined with the fields of research of other sciences about the Earth and Space. For example, the physics of solar flares is a kind of cut through many areas of modern physics: from the kinetic theory of plasma to the physics of high-energy particles. Another example is heliobiology, where the interests of specialists from such distant fields as stellar physics, geophysics, biology, medicine, and psychology converged (and sometimes decisively collided!). Such areas of socio-cultural studies as history and archeology, economics and sociology were in the same row. At the same time, however, many fundamental problems remain unresolved and some of the most important processes that determine the essence of these scientific directions have not been investigated. Below, using specific and most convincing examples, we will try to discuss a number of them without pretending to be complete.
Along with fundamental problems and concepts, the applied aspects of solar-terrestrial physics are of great interest, in particular, radiation hazard in space, forecasting helio-geophysical disturbances, socio-economic losses due to fluctuations in space weather, and many others. Let us recall in this connection the words of A. Einstein: “Intellectual instruments, without which the development of modern technology would have been impossible, came mainly from observing the stars.” There is no doubt also the enormous ideological significance (Weltanschauung, or epistemology) of the results of solar-terrestrial physics.
We are children of the Cosmos. And our dear home
So welded together and inextricably strong,
That we feel merged in one,
That at every point the world—
the whole world is concentrated.
A.L. Chizhevsky (“Terrestrial echo of solar storms”)
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Miroshnichenko, L. (2023). Future of Solar-Terrestrial Physics. In: Solar-Terrestrial Relations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22548-2_13
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