Space and interplanetary travel are becoming an increasingly popular topic in real life. Today it is not only for writers and scientists, but also for entrepreneurs, companies, and the state for a variety of reasons. From the extraction of rare minerals (for this I had to work hard on chemistry) to development of the technologies themselves, which more than once gave a powerful impetus to the development of common industries and the economy.
On the way to the development of this direction there is an obstacle, oddly enough, the human body.
The previous experience of inhabited space flights has shown that the state of weightlessness, the absence of powerful protection in the form of the earth's atmosphere has a destructive effect on the human body. The lack of gravity leads to atrophy of the entire muscular corset and thinning of the bone tissue. In addition, it is known that in a state of gravity, understandable and predictable diseases and ailments take much longer to heal and just as unpredictably as they proceed. Medical protocols that works on earth in a state of gravity cease to work predictably. I thought about this for a long time when one day an incident happened to me that gave rise to an interesting idea.
Once I caught a cold and did not feel well, I took a standard dose of vitamin "C" and washed it down with hot tea with honey, I went to bed. The condition was still so-so. I wondered how it would all be if I were on a spaceship. I tried to imagine it. It seems that it has become even more unpleasant. At that moment, almost subconsciously, I put on the headphones and turned on the music from my library (I'm a music lover) and suddenly, after a minute of listening to these wonderful sounds, I felt noticeably better. This gave impetus to the idea that it is possible to choose an individual set of melodies for each space traveler. To modify the internal states of a person in zero gravity.
After all, this is a well-known phenomenon that different music stimulates the production of different hormones. Energetic rock – adrenaline, classical music is endorphins. Moreover, in earthly medicine, there are directions that study the effect of music on human health. In space, this could be a new and significant contribution to improving human well-being.
Obviously, this will require an investment of significant resources, primarily human, temporary, but it is also obvious that this will ultimately bring results, possibly critically important for the further expansion of the scope of human activity, even in such harsh conditions as space.