Something Weird Happens When E = –mc² takes you on a wild ride through Paul Dirac’s groundbreaking quest to tame negative energy. Starting with the Schrödinger equation’s hiccup, we follow Dirac as he teams up with Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to craft his famous equation—only to predict a whole mirror universe of “anti-electrons.” The video unpacks how that bold leap led to discovering the positron, why antiparticles can be seen as electrons zooming backward in time, and the bittersweet twists that reshaped modern physics.
Along the way you’ll get insider commentary from Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa, rare archival finds from Florida State and Caltech, and all the links you need to dive deeper (plus a nod to Hostinger for sponsoring the journey). It’s part history lesson, part sci-fi mind-bender, and totally addictive for anyone who’s ever wondered what happens if you flip E = mc² on its head.
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