Ever wondered what happens when E = −mc²? This Veritasium video explores Paul Dirac’s wild ride from grappling with negative energy to rewriting quantum rules. It explains why the Schrödinger equation falls short in a relativistic world, how Dirac’s famous equation sprang from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and why it inevitably predicts antimatter.
Along the way you meet “the strangest man in physics,” relive the first sighting of the positron, and dive into mind-bending ideas like antiparticles as time travelers and an entire anti-world. Expert insights from Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa, plus archival treasures from FSU and Caltech, bring this classic physics saga to life.
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