III. Ecosmos: A Revolutionary Fertile, Habitable, Solar-Bioplanet, Incubator Lifescape

B. Our Whole Scale EcosmoVerse Description Project

Coles, Peter. The State of the Universe. Nature. 433/248, 2005. For the World Year of Physics, a technical review of the current experimental and theoretical consolidation of the big bang, galactic, and expansionary cosmology.

Cotsakis, Spiros and A. P. Yefremov.. 100 Years of Mathematical Cosmology: Part A. Philosophical Transactions A. May, 2022. As an example of this consummate year, Institute of Gravitation and Cosmology, RUDN University, Russia and Dynamical Systems and Cosmology, University of the Aegean, Greece astrophysicists provide a broad retrospective on scientific advances and expansions over the past century. Indeed, prior to galaxies being found in the 1920s, only a circumsolar spacescape with starry reaches was known. (See Historic Prescience) Quantum phenomena was just being engaged. In our 21st century global phase, theories, computation, instruments and theories have brought us to an exocosmoses realm. Part B as The Future of Mathematical Cosmology is online in July 2022.

We cover a century of mathematical cosmology from the time of the Einstein static universe in 1917 until today. We divide the two issues into four main periods, the first one about astrophysical advances until 1960. The second period (1960–80) reviews geometric extensions of the standard model to date, singularities, chaotic behaviours and the initial input of particle physics into cosmology. Our survey for the third period (1980–2000) continues onto inflation, quantum phenomena, string theories, the multiverse, cosmic stability and modified gravity. The last period moves onto M-theoretic aspects, braneworlds, landscape, topological issues, measurement, dynamical features and dark energy. (Composite summary for both issues)

Courtois, Helene. Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea – the Milky Way’s Home. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. A University of Lyon astrophysicist and author gifts us with a latest exposition of our vast galactic celestial neighborhood. Chapter 1 is Our New Cosmic Address. The popular volume chronicles her collaborative research projects toward learning all about location, location. For more see, On the Sociology and Hierarchy of Voids by HC and colleagues at arXiv:2211.16388.

You are here on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. How can we pinpoint our location so precisely? For twenty years, astrophysicist Hélène Courtois surfed the cosmos with international teams of researchers, working to map our local universe. In this book, Courtois describes this quest and the discovery of our home supercluster. She explains that Laniakea (which means “immense heaven” in Hawaiian) is the largest galaxy structure known to which we belong. It contains about 100,000 large galaxies like our own, and a million smaller ones.

Covonw, Giovanni and Mauro Sereno. Lensing Cosmic Drift. arXiv:2205.05292. We cite this work by University of Naples and of Bologna astrophysicists for its content and as another instance whereif such collective Earthuman explorations could be seen to perform some whole scale function, (of which we are yet unawares), of intended, necessary universe self-quantification and internal descriptive record.

As the Universe expands, the redshift of distant sources changes with time. Here we discuss gravitational lensing phenomena that are a consequence of the cosmic drift between lensed source, gravitational lens, and observer. The angular position, magnification, distortion, and time delay of already existing multiple images change. The drift detection in image separation could be within reach of next generation surveys with μarcsec angular resolution.

Dawson, Kyle and Will Percival. A New Map of the Universe. Scientific American. May, 2021. University of Utah and University of Waterloo, Canada astrophysicists graphically present and inform the latest chart of millions of galaxies across 11 billion years of cosmic history. And as I enter a contribution as this, it astounds that our composite Earthuman sapience is altogether capable of any breadth and depth of cosmic quantification and visual display. Who are we Earthlings to have such abilities, for what infinite purpose might we imagine?

De Regt, Robin, et al. Network Analysis of the COSMOS Galaxy Field. arXiv:1707.00978. A British–Ukranian team including Yurij Holovatch (search) study interstellar web-like geometries so as to estimate the global and local properties of galaxy samples as complex networks and investigate correlations between observable astrophysical properties of galaxies and the local and global environment within a network. Here is an example of a network physics which proceeds to reveal a dynamic universe with hints of an organic, cerebral multiplex anatomy and physiology.

The complex network analysis of COSMOS galaxy field for R.A. = 149.4 deg - 150.4 deg and Decl. = 1.7 deg - 2.7 deg is presented. 2D projections of spatial distributions of galaxies in three redshift slices 0.88-0.91, 0.91-0.94 and 0.94-0.97 are studied. We analyse network similarity/peculiarity of different samples and correlations of galaxy astrophysical properties (colour index and stellar mass) with their topological environments. For each slice the local and global network measures are calculated. Results indicate a high level of similarity between geometry and topology of different galaxy samples. (Abstract excerpt)

De Rossi, Matteo, ed. Solar System: Structure, Formation, and Exploration. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science, 2011. We note this edition for its Russian, Chinese, and Italian chapter authors, who then engage a novel theoretical course to view stellar and planetary phenomena as arising from intrinsic dynamical propensities. In “A Quantum-Like Model to Search the Origin of the Solar System Structure” Qingxiang Nie, Shandong Normal University, explains this occurrence by a stochastic “quantum theory of the universe.” Similarly, in “A Model of Forming Planets and Distribution of Planetary Distances and Orbits in the Solar System Based on the Statistical Theory of Spheroidal Bodies” Alexander Krot, Laboratory of Self-Organization System Modeling, United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, considers “a statistical theory of gravitating spheroidal bodies to explore and develop a model of forming and self-organizing the Solar system.” This activity is seen as caused by “a natural self-evolution inner process of development of protoplanets from a dust-gas cloud.”

In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the structure, formation and exploration of the solar system. Topics discussed in this compilation include a quantum-like model to search the origin of the solar system structure; close binaries, eccentric exojupiters, and the solar system; harnessing energy from the sun by splitting water using Mn-oxo or Co-based catalytic systems to mimic photosynthesis; a relativistic positioning system exploiting pulsating sources for navigation across the solar system and the role of solar wind dynamics on interstellar dust in the solar system. (Publisher)

Di Pietro, Lorenzo, et al. Analyticity and Unitarity for Cosmological Correlators. arXiv:2108.01695. We cite this paper by University of Trieste, Stanford University and CERN, Switzerland physicists among many similar entries as an instance of awesome Earthuman collaborative mathematic abilities to explore and quantify any deepest realm or farthest reach of the quantum universe. How incredible is it that out of its temporal developmental via myriad galaxies, solar systems just now a rarest habitable sapiensphere can achieve these retrospective findings and an elibrary of eCosmos. A global occasion is evident by over 150 references. But as ever, where do “unitary correlations” come from, why can we learn, what agency put them there in the first place?

We study the fundamentals of quantum field theory on a rigid de Sitter space. We show that the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all orders can be equivalently generated by a non-unitary Lagrangian on a Euclidean AdS geometry. We use this relation to infer the analytic structure of the spectral density that captures the conformal partial wave expansion of a late-time four-point function, to derive an OPE expansion, and to constrain the operator spectrum. (Abstract excerpt)

Dolaq, Klaus, et al. Encyclopedia Magneticum: Scaling Relations from Cosmic Dawn to Present Day. arXiv:2504.01061. As the quotes and title say, into April 2025, thirteen astroscientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, MPI Astrophysik, Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Trieste and European Southern Observatory as Earthumanity just now becomes able cast back and fill in a long trajectory from earliest times to our intended retrospective witness, description and record. See also The Self-Similar and Non-Linear Behaviour of Large-Scale In- and Outflows from Galaxies to Galaxy Clusters by Benjamin Seidel, et al at arXiv:2503.19956.

Galaxy and halo scaling relations are now well established from observations. But their origin and features remain in question. Here we introduce the Magneticum Pathfinder hydrodynamical cosmological simulation suite that achieves many new resolutions. We analyze 28 scales covering global parameters along with internal halos from massive galaxy clusters down to galaxies. Magneticum Pathfinder matches many observed relations including quiescent galaxies at cosmic dawn, the mass--size evolution, and mass--metallicity and temperature--mass regimes. (Excerpt)

As demonstrated by this long citation list, scaling relations connect a multitude of different galaxy and halo properties, illustrating the complexity of the physical processes that drive structure formation from cosmic dawn to the present day. They prove that the different components of gas, stars, and dark matter are involved in an intricate dance, interacting with one another in sometimes subtle and sometimes visible ways. Disentangling these processes is among the most difficult puzzles that our Universe presents us with. (2)

The Magneticum simulations are aiming to follow the formation of cosmological structures over a large range of cosmological scales by performing a set of hydrodynamical simulations of different cosmological volumes, each of them sampled with a very large number of particles providing excellent spacial resolution of the different simulations. We take many physical processes into account to allow detailed comparisons to a variety of multi-wavelength observational data. (www.magneticum.org/index.html)

Dorminey, Bruce. What Galaxy Superclusters Tell us About the Universe. Astronomy. January, 2010. In part that their actual fractal geometry reveals a “self-similar cosmos” whence nature’s ecological nestings, as the quote avers, extend even to the celestial reaches.

“There are laws of nature that apply under extremely different conditions,” says (Benoit) Mandelbrot. “Nature is ruled by the big equations of Mathematical physics. Things that seem to be completely irregular are, in fact, very regular. So, there is some big principle of organization in our universe from one scientific discipline to another.” (33)

Dupuy, Alexandra and Helene Courtois. Watersheds of the Universe: Laniakea and Five Newcomers in the Neighborhood. arXiv:2305.02339. Korea Institute for Advanced Study and Claude Bernard University, Lyon astronomers (search HC) post an expanded model of their brave “cosmography” project as the latest telescopes find how galactic clusters move around to arrive at these celestial displays. And as one may view in this paper it seems much akin to the past continental movements on Earth.

This article updates the dynamical cosmography of the Local Universe within 1 giga light-years by way of the gravitational velocity field computed using the CosmicFlows-4 catalog. With this resource, galaxy distances to delineate superclusters seen as watersheds by their size, shape, main streams of matter and their central attractor. Laniakea, our home supercluster, along with five more are now revealed: Apus, Hercules, Lepus, Perseus-Pisces and (Harlow) Shapley. Interestingly these hugh formations are an order of magnitude larger than the theoretical ones predicted by cosmological ΛCDM simulations. (Excerpt)

Cosmography is the science that maps and measures the large scale structures in the observed Universe that are built from the tug of war between gravitation and space expansion. Mapping the position and spatial extents of clusters, filaments, walls, superclusters and voids of galaxies is most frequently and more easily done using the Hubble-Lemaître law on redshift datasets. However, such positions and sizes are distorted by the local gravitational velocity field that curves clusters of galaxies and elongates them radially to the observer. Several methodologies are developed to counter these distortions that will be dominant as bigger and bigger datasets arrive. (1)

Dyson, Freeman. Time Without End: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe. Reviews of Modern Physics. 51/3, 1979. A classic paper by the visionary physicist written to refute Stephen Weinberg’s 1977 pointless universe decree by way of theoretical reasons that support a innately developing cosmos which becomes filled with and transformed by life and intelligence. Dyson's 1981 book Disturbing the Universe is the source for the title phrase Greening of the Galaxy.

I have found a universe growing without limit in richness and complexity, a universe of life surviving forever and making itself known to its neighbors across unimaginable gulfs of space and time. (459)

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