Something Weird Happens When E = −mc² takes you on Paul Dirac’s wild ride from the Schrödinger equation’s breakdown to the birth of the Dirac equation, where troubling negative-energy solutions unexpectedly predict antimatter. Along the way you meet the “strangest man in physics,” explore the Klein–Gordon hiccup, and see how Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle fits into the puzzle.
With expert insights from Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa and treasure-hunting in FSU and Caltech archives, the video shows how antiparticles like the positron could be particles moving backward in time, hinting at a whole “anti-world” and marking the bittersweet dawn of modern antimatter physics.
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