Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, March 4, 2022
Deepening Crisis in Particle Physics Forces a Rethink
Long-held ideas about what's "natural" might be wrong.
A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature's Laws
By NATALIE WOLCHOVER
For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for new elementary particles that would have explained why nature looks the way it does. As physicists confront that failure, they're reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.
Grand Finale An EEG recording of the brain of a man in his last moments of life showed high activity in the centers linked to memory and meditation, Harry Baker reports for Live Science. Maybe our life really does flash before our eyes. This isn't the only cliché about death with a scientific basis. In 2018 Jennifer Ouellette wrote for Quanta about a mathematical theory for visual hallucinations that explains the "light at the end of the tunnel" reportedly seen by the dying.
Bad Atmosphere To investigate why Mars lost its magnetic field, researchers modeled a molten core resembling that of the young Mars. They found that convective currents capable of producing magnetic fields were short-lived, Elizabeth Fernandez writes for Big Think. With no magnetic shield, Mars lost its atmosphere to solar winds. In 2019 Rebecca Boyle reported for Quanta that a similar effect could be why there is a dearth of planets 1.5-2 times the size of Earth: When the atmospheres of those planets disappeared, so did much of their mass.
