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, May 27, 2022
Physicists Trace the Rise in Entropy to Quantum Information
Wordle tips from Claude Shannon; Computer proof-checking explained; New origin of life clues; Naturalness on the Quanta Science Podcast; Math magic
Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder
By PHILIP BALL
The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability. New arguments trace its true source to the flows of quantum information.
Life's First Peptides May Have Grown on RNA Strands
By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU
For the past few decades, researchers have favored an "RNA world" theory of life's origins, but a recent study breathes fire into the possibility of a more expansive "RNA-peptide world."
Crisis in Particle Physics Forces a Rethink of What Is Natural
Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT; Story 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.
The Big Reveal of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
Video by EMILY BUDER
More than three years after the release of the first image of a black hole, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) shared an image of the supermassive specimen at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. In this video, EHT's scientists explain the science behind the big discovery.
Good Habits There is more to determining whether a planet is habitable than its proximity to its sun. For PBS Space Time Matt O'Dowd and Moiya McTier describe the "galactic habitable zone": a range of distances from the galactic center with the right stellar densities and metallicities for life to thrive. Galactic-scale features also play a role in the propagation of life. In 2019 Rebecca Boyle wrote for Quanta about a simulation that showed that galaxy dynamics would aid potential alien civilizations in intragalactic travel.
Constant Evaluation 100 years ago, Alexander Friedmann changed cosmology when he considered how the evolution of the universe would have changed if Einstein's "cosmological constant" had different values, writes Tom Siegfried for Science News. Today we're reasonably certain the cosmological constant is positive, but we don't know its exact value. In a 2021 Quanta article, Charlie Wood wrote about how related issues might be solved if we give up the sacred cosmological principle: that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic.
