  This study was announced for the first time in Greek language in 1988 in the
National Observatory of Athens, in the conference of the 1st Panhellenic
Symposium entitled "Solar and Space Research in Greece Today - Basic Research,
Technology and Applications" organized by the National Observatory of Athens,
in Penteli (Athens) in 1988. It was also republished in the Conference
proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Symposium held in Democritus University of
Thrace, Xanthi - Greece, 26-29 April 1993. In this study, G.P. Pavlos,
initially inspired from the theory of self organization of Prigogine [1] and
Nicolis [2], proposes the hypothesis of magnetospheric chaos believing that the
classical theory of plasma statistics and plasma instabilities are not able to
describe efficiently the holistic character of magnetospheric dynamics. The
translation of this study in English language is significant concerning the
history of scientific ideas, since the research that took place the following
years vindicated the hypothesis of magnetospheric chaos which this study first
introduced in 1988
