Something Weird Happens When E = –mc² takes you on a whirlwind tour of Paul Dirac’s mind-bending work on negative energy and antimatter. Starting with why the Schrödinger equation can’t handle negative energy states, it walks through Dirac’s famous equation, the birth of the positron (anti-electron) and even the spooky idea that antiparticles are just particles traveling backward in time.
Peppered with expert insights (hello Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa), vintage archive footage and a dash of theoretical drama, this video shows how Dirac’s “weird” math opened the door to an entire anti-universe—and eventually to real-world discoveries that reshaped modern physics.
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