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Physics of Gravitating Systems I - Equilibrium and Stability (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Physics of Gravitating Systems I - Equilibrium and Stability (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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It would seem that any specialist in plasma physics studying a
medium in which the interaction between particles is as
distance-dependent as the inter action between stars and other
gravitating masses would assert that the role of collective effects
in the dynamics of gravitating systems must be decisive. However,
among astronomers this point of view has been recog nized only very
recently. So, comparatively recently, serious consideration has
been devoted to theories of galactic spiral structure in which the
dominant role is played by the orbital properties of individual
stars rather than collec tive effects. In this connection we would
like to draw the reader's attention to a difference in the
scientific traditions of plasma physicists and astrono mers,
whereby the former have explained the delay of the onset of
controlled thermonuclear fusion by the "intrigues" of collective
processes in the plasma, while many a generation of astronomers
were calculating star motions, solar and lunar eclipses, and a
number of other fine effects for many years ahead by making
excellent use of only the laws of Newtonian mechanics. Therefore,
for an astronomer, it is perhaps not easy to agree with the fact
that the evolution of stellar systems is controlled mainly by
collective effects, and the habitual methods of theoretical
mechanics III astronomy must make way for the method of
self-consistent fields."
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