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

B. Our Whole Scale EcosmoVerse Description Project

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)

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)

Elmegreen, Bruce. Star Formation from Galaxies to Globules. Astrophysical Journal. 577/206, 2002. An astrophysicist at the IBM Watson Research Center explains that stars condense and emerge due to the intrinsic self-similar nature of the interstellar medium. Another resultant effect is how they array into hierarchical clusters. Elmegreen’s many arXiv papers can be accessed via Google and his website, often coauthored with Debra Meloy Elmegreen, professor of astronomy at Vassar College.

In this sense, star formation is saturated to its largest possible value given the fractal nature of the interstellar medium. (206) The scale-free nature of interstellar gas is the imprint of turbulence or turbulence combined with nonlinear self-gravitational instabilities. (210)

Forbes, Duncan, et al. Globular Cluster Formation and Evolution in the Context of Cosmological Galaxy Assembly. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Vol. 474/Iss. 2210, 2018. We cite this posting by a 12 member astroscientist team from Australia, the UK, USA, Scotland, and Germany, including Nate Bastian and Michele Trenti, as an example of anthropo/cosmo sapiens proceeding on her/his own to explore, plumb, quantify, describe, and self-discover every breadth and depth of nature’s multiUniVersal dynamic celestial development.

We discuss some of the key open questions regarding the formation and evolution of globular clusters (GCs) during galaxy formation and assembly within a cosmological framework. The oldest GCs have ages greater than or equal to 12.5 Gyr and formed around the time of reionization. Resolved colour-magnitude diagrams of Milky Way GCs and direct imaging of lensed proto-GCs at z∼6 with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) promise further insight. GCs are known to host multiple populations of stars with variations in their chemical abundances. Recently, such multiple populations have been detected in ∼2 Gyr old compact, massive star clusters. This suggests a common, single pathway for the formation of GCs at high and low redshift. The shape of the initial mass function for GCs remains unknown; however, for massive galaxies a power-law mass function is favoured. (Abstract excerpt)

Foster, Joshua, et al.. Dark Grand Unification in the Axiverse: Decaying Axion Dark Matter and Spontaneous Baryogenesis. arXiv:2208.10504. We cite this entry by MIT, UC Berkeley, and Israel Institute of Technology theorists among a growing flow about our ever expansive, engaging surround and how vast and deep our collective global intellects are able to reach. By a Planatural philoSophia vista, Earthuman peoples quite seem to be performing an ordained, functional role as universal quantifiers, describers, recorders, maybe acknowledgers, of some manner a cocreative existence which needs its own self-observance and recognition. See Detecting and Analyzing the Topology of the Cosmic Web with Spatial Clustering Algorithms by Dimitrios Kelesis, et al (2208.11393) for another example.

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