Something Weird Happens When E = –mc² takes you on a whirlwind tour of Paul Dirac’s genius breakthrough: realising the Schrödinger equation was missing negative-energy solutions, crafting the Dirac equation, and predicting the positron (aka the anti-electron). Along the way you get a crash course in the Klein-Gordon missteps, Heisenberg’s uncertainty, and the human side of Dirac himself, whose bold theory implied antiparticles might literally be particles moving backwards through time.
By the end you’ll see how that wild idea points to an entire “anti-world” made of antimatter, and why the hunt for the positron was one of physics’ most dramatic detective stories. It’s equal parts theory, history and head-spinning possibility.
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